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Apr 22, 2026 | 2:47 pm

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Originally Posted by iahphx

. Personally, I don't think that's the proper role of government for failed business models, and I'm not super confident the merged airline would be viable either. Remember, Frontier has been slowly going broke. Buying parts of Spirit is unlikely to result in more profitability, unless they can change the model.

Frontier buying Spirit would be the airline equivalent of K-Mart buying Sears back in the day. Both were circling the drain, and instead of helping, the merger just put them over the edge. Losing NK sucks, but losing NK and F9 would suck a lot worse.

I also agree that it's not really the role of the government to bail out corporations. I guess we'll see what happens, though.

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