JetBlue Airways到达购买Spirit Airlines
经过丹尼尔·麦卡锡(Daniel McCarthy)/
JetBlue Airways达成了一项交易,以购买超低成本的航空公司Spirit Airlines,结束了与Frontier的长达数月的竞标战争,并创建了“国家的低型挑战者,向主要的四大航空公司造成了国家低型挑战者”。
Jetblue在周四上午宣布了这笔交易,并写道,它将以每股33.50美元的现金获得精神,包括在精神股东批准该交易的情况下每股2.50美元的现金支付。当交易最终确定后,合并后的航空公司将是美国第五大航空公司
“我们很高兴能够提供这种引人注目的组合,使我们的战略增长为我们的战略增长,使JetBlue能够在更多的路线上为更多的低价和更多客户提供独特的融合,” JetBlue首席执行官Robin Hayes说。
“We look forward to welcoming Spirit’s outstanding Team Members to JetBlue and together creating a customer-centric, fifth-largest carrier in the United States. Spirit and JetBlue will continue to advance our shared goal of disrupting the industry to bring down fares from the Big Four airlines. This combination is an exciting opportunity to diversify and expand our network, add jobs and new possibilities for Crewmembers, and expand our platform for profitable growth.”
JetBlue的宣布是在Spirit和Frontier结束的几个小时后才出现的。据报道精神不可能secure shareholder approval for its deal to buy Frontierdespite the efforts from its executive board, including delaying the vote four different times.
Spirit Airlines的总裁兼首席执行官Ted Christie说:“尽管我们不得不终止与Frontier的拟议合并感到失望,但我们为过去几个月来团队成员的敬业工作感到自豪。”
现在,随着图片的领域,JetBlue的批准过程变得更加容易。However, there are still some regulatory approval procedures needed to be completed—Spirit had 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 difficult to gain the regulatory approval it would need for the deal to go through.
这项交易启动了JetBlue的增长计划,在30个国家 /地区为125个目的地增加了每日1,700多次航班。beplay银行卡它还有助于JetBlue在包括FT在内的某些主要市场中提高其相关性。劳德代尔(Lauderdale),奥兰多(Orlando),圣胡安(San Juan)和洛杉矶(Los Angeles),以及在包括拉斯维加斯,达拉斯,休斯顿,芝加哥,底特律和迈阿密等“四大航空公司”的枢纽中增加了存在。
JetBlue还表示,全狂欢的舰队将包括新的A220和A320NEOS。