{"id":87319,"date":"2022-07-29T21:37:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T21:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/?p=87319"},"modified":"2022-07-29T21:37:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T21:37:17","slug":"without-spirit-whats-next-for-frontier-airlines-travel-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/transport\/without-spirit-whats-next-for-frontier-airlines-travel-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"Without Spirit, what&#39;s next for Frontier Airlines: Travel Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frontier Airlines lost the battle for Spirit Airlines to JetBlue. But in so doing, the discount carrier might be better positioned than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Assuming the JetBlue-Spirit merger goes through, which is a huge question mark, Frontier comes out a winner,&#8221; said Seth Miller, editor of the airline passenger-focused website PaxEx.Aero. &#8220;They&#8217;ll be by far the largest ultralow-cost carrier (ULCC) in the U.S., with a huge order book and opportunity to grow with a vacuum created as Spirit exits the market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For now, Frontier is a distant second to Spirit, operating a fleet of 114 aircraft compared with Spirit&#8217;s fleet of 176 planes. Allegiant, which focuses on small markets unserved by Spirit, Frontier or the larger carriers, has 112 aircraft, according to Planespotters.net.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Related: JetBlue deal puts Spirit management in a tricky spot<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If Frontier had been able to acquire Spirit, Frontier would have been thrusted to the top of the U.S. market for ULCCs. The Denver-based carrier would have vaulted from the eighth-largest to the fifth-largest U.S. airline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, Frontier is poised for substantial growth, even without Spirit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The airline expects 234 deliveries of Airbus narrowbodies from 2022 to 2029. Accounting for aircraft retirements, Frontier anticipates increasing its fleet to 272 aircraft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Further, noted Miller, growth will be accomplished without the complication and expense of an airline integration.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, if JetBlue&#8217;s acquisition of Spirit earns regulatory approval, JetBlue has said that it will reconfigure the Spirit fleet to look like JetBlue&#8217;s existing aircraft, thereby moving Spirit assets out of the ULCC sector.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to investors during the airline&#8217;s Q2 earnings call shortly after the Frontier-Spirit agreement fell through on Wednesday, Frontier CEO Barry Biffle was bullish about that scenario.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the event that they do merge, you take a carrier that&#8217;s probably one of the most similar to us, and you slap on 40% more costs. And that creates a lot of runway ahead of us,&#8221; Biffle said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biffle and other Frontier executives had already come up with a new tag line ahead of the earnings call.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re excited to be America&#8217;s ultralow-cost carrier,&#8221; Biffle said in his closing remarks. He uttered that tagline four times during the call.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emphasizing that point, the following day Frontier announced a sale offering a million seats for $19 each on selected flights from Aug. 1 through Oct. 5.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like Miller, other industry observers see upside for Frontier despite losing out on acquiring Spirit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John Taylor, CEO of the Card Curator app, which helps credit card holders maximize travel rewards, said that a JetBlue-Spirit merger would leave Frontier as the dominant ULCC in the U.S., which is what it had hoped to achieve by purchasing Spirit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my eyes, Spirit&#8217;s rejection of the merger is a mostly winning situation for Frontier,&#8221; Taylor said. &#8220;Frontier won&#8217;t be able to rapidly expand its gate presence and routes, but it will only be left with one major ultralow-cost competitor &#8212; Allegiant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelweekly.com\/Travel-News\/Airline-News\/What-s-next-for-Frontier-Airlines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frontier Airlines lost the battle for Spirit Airlines to JetBlue. 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