What might a combination of these two airlines look like? We assembled data and created these charts to illustrate the potential outcome. This is not a comment on whether the combination will be successful; it is an attempt to represent the combined operations.
The Market
The two arrows highlight these two airlines as independents. They are big airlines by industry standards, but in the US, they are dwarfed by the competition. Remember, this is an economy-of-scale business. Bigger is almost always better.
US DoT AirInsight
The chart shows that Spirit operates at stage lengths similar to the industry, while Frontier operates at slightly shorter stages. Spirit has higher load factors than Frontier.
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