Originally Posted by
nermaljcat
... hang on - you're right - If VX wait for Frontier to go belly up, there will be cheap/liquidated Airbuses available and airport slots freed up (should be plenty of Denver space to expand to).
The problem is that if they wait for them to go "belly up", it will take years to buy the planes. There will be a long line of creditors...Same reason they can't get the Skybus planes now (other than the two they own).