精神正式将Frontier合并投票延迟到7月27日
byDaniel McCarthy/
旅游行业将不得不等待更长的时间才能解决Spirit Airlines的出售。
Spirit on Wednesday confirmed that it would delay the vote on the proposed merger with Frontier, which was originally scheduled for this week, to July 27.
延误使边境有更多时间在与JetBlue的竞标战中建立支持的支持。Spirit周三表示,它仍然更喜欢与Frontier的合并,但是,它也表示仍在与JetBlue进行讨论。
"Spirit will continue to solicit proxies from its stockholders with respect to the proposed merger with Frontier, and will continue discussions with Frontier and JetBlue Airways Corporation," the carrier said in a release on Wednesday. "The Spirit Board of Directors reiterates its commitment to the Frontier transaction and strongly recommends stockholders vote FOR the merger."
The delay was requested in a letter by Frontier CEO Barry Biffle, sent to Spirit CEO and General Counsel on Sunday and made public this week, which asked for the shareholder vote to be delayed in order to build more support for the preferred deal.
“We still remain very far from obtaining approval from Spirit stockholders based on the proxy data we received as of July 8,” Biffle wrote in his letter.
自从原始公告以来,该交易一直在余额中悬而未决4月份以来,捷蓝航空竞争投标公开. JetBlue’s deal, which is now a $3.7 billion all-cash takeoveraccording to CNBC, remains significantly higher than Frontier’s, now a $2.6 billion cash-and-stock combination, but carries some regulatory approval issues.
Spirit’s Board of Directors had voted unanimously against the JetBlue offer in May, telling shareholders that the offer “is NOT in the best interests of Spirit and its stockholders” because of “substantial regulatory hurdles” that would make the deal “not reasonably capable of being consummated.”
In particular, Spirit said that JetBlue’s Northeast Alliance with American Airlines, which was heavily expanded over the past two years particularly out of New York and Boston, will make it incredibly difficult to gain the regulatory approval it would need for the deal to go through.