Originally Posted by
davywavy
Quite a few people think that, but I'm not sure why, at least in the case of Spirit.
Indigo sold its remaining, and fairly substantial, holding in Spirit immediately before buying Frontier, which seems an odd thing to do if they were planning to merge the two.
Allegiant? I don't see it, but anything's possible. They're two quite different models, and according to a post on another website, based on DOT stats, Indigo's Frontier made more money ($103 million) in the first nine months of 2014 than Allegiant made in the whole year ($87 million).
Mostly, I think Bill Franke at Indigo wants to be boss and if Indigo can turn Frontier into a money printing machine, as seems to be happening, and if they wanted to merge with anyone, Sun Country Airlines might be more viable.
In any event, I doubt anything would happen until after Frontier has had a public offering, which Indigo isn't even hinting at yet.
The danger of a Spirit merger is that TTN could lose out to ACY. In that case, you give Allegiant an opening to step in. And since Allegiant really focuses only on tourist destinations, you also give a second airline and opening to go to a major hub like ORD, DTW or ATL. If TTN won out over ACY, you would have the added bonus of being able to connect in FLL (or maybe MIA in a few years) to a wide range of Carribean destinations.