A JetBlue Airways Airbus A320, left, passes a Spirit Airlines Airbus A320 as it taxis on the runway, Thursday, July 7, 2022, at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, ...
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Feds File Antitrust Suit Against JetBlue Over Spirit Merger—Putting $3.8 Billion Deal In Jeopardy
Topline Federal prosecutors filed an antitrust lawsuit against JetBlue to prevent its blockbuster $3.8 billion merger with Spirit Airlines on Tuesday, preventing what would be the country’s fifth-larg...
JetBlue CEO Says Feds Will Sue Airline Over Its $3.8 Billion Merger With Spirit This Week
Topline The U.S. federal government is poised to block JetBlue’s $3.8 billion merger with Spirit Airlines, according to several reports Monday, sending both companies’ stocks swinging and preventing w...
Where The U.S. Airlines Fit On A Traditional Monopoly Game Board
A Monopoly game is seen during the Monopoly U.S. National Championship tournament at Union Station … [+] April 15, 2009 in Washington, DC. Getty Images The U.S. airlines have been in an almost c...
Let The Country Benefit From The JetBlue Effect
Richard Branson once famously said (reflecting on his adventure with Virgin Atlantic), “If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.” For his part, Warren Bu...
JetBlue Ground Workers Reject Machinists’ Effort To Unionize
A JetBlue Airbus A320 taxis at Washington National Airport in November. (Photo by Daniel Slim) AFP via Getty Images The International Association of Machinists has lost its bid to represent ramp worke...
JetBlue pilots approve contract extension and raises
A JetBlue passenger jet (Embraer 190) taxis at LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. Robert Alexander | Archive Photos | Getty Images JetBlue Airways pilots have approved a contract extension that ...
Southwest Airlines’ Reliability Problem Starts With Their Schedule
Travelers crowd a Southwest customer service desk after cancellation of thousands of flights over … [+] the holidays. AFP via Getty Images Southwest Airlines had a major operational meltdown ove...
How United, Delta, JetBlue and American Airlines paint their planes
Commercial aircraft are generally expensive to manufacture, operate, maintain and fly, but not many think about the cost that goes into painting one. Dean Baldwin Painting is a 57-year-old aircraft pa...
Every Single Airline Stock Fell In 2022, But Let’s Look Forward
Travelers wait to go through security at San Francisco International Airport on December 22. Photo … [+] by David Paul Morris. © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP U.S. airline executives may be brimming...
Other Pilots Want Multiple Contract Improvements. Jet Blue Pilots, Facing Merger, Just Want More Pay
JetBlue ALPA leaders met Wednesday at the New York Marriott Downtown. Chris Kenney is front row … [+] center. Wayne Scales is behind Kenney, to his left. JetBlue ALPA Nearly every U.S. pilot gro...
JetBlue plans Paris flights next summer in trans-Atlantic expansion
A JetBlue Airways Corp. Airbus A321 plane sits at a gate outside of Terminal 5 at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Jetblue Airways Corp. is s...
The Hydrogen Economy Will Soon Be Ready For Take Off, Including Planes And Power Plants
LISBON, PORTUGAL – JULY 22: TAP Air Portugal Airbus A321Neo, first flight using SAF – Sustainable … [+] Aviation Fuel, takes off to Ponta Delgada, Azores, on the day it was signed th...
The U.S. Regional Airline Industry Is Slowly Shrinking
Skywest is one of the large regional airlines in the U.S. Like all regionals, they are facing some … [+] difficult issues suggesting this sector of the industry is shrinking. Getty Images The U....
JetBlue (JBLU) earnings Q3 2022
A JetBlue Airways Corp. plane prepares for landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, April 18, 2017. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images JetBlue Airways eked out a $57 million profi...
Coca-Cola, General Motors, JetBlue and others
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Coca-Cola (KO) – Coca-Cola shares rose 2.9% in the premarket after the beverage giant’ third-quarter earnings and sales beat Street fore...
American Airlines’ Alaska Air Deal Differs From Its JetBlue Deal. Does That Matter?
An Alaska Airlines Airbus A321 arrives at LAX in January 2021. (Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin) GC Images An alliance with American Airlines has helped Alaska AirlinesALK compete on the West Coast, pro...
In A Boston Courtroom, American Airlines CEO Robert Isom Recalls Some Scary Moments
American Airlines employees check in two passengers at a mostly empty check-in counter at Washington … [+] National on May 12, 2020. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS) AFP via Getty Images Mar...
JetBlue, American Airlines go to court in Justice Department antitrust fight
An American Airlines plane lands on a runway near a parked JetBlue plane at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on July 16, 2020 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images ...
JetBlue fleet service workers seek union vote
A JetBlue passenger jet (Embraer 190) taxis at LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. Robert Alexander | Archive Photos | Getty Images A major airline union said Friday that it has enough support am...
Spirit Pilots Seek Higher Pay Before JetBlue Merger: Talks Start Tuesday
A JetBlue aircraft nears a Spirit aircraft at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in May … [+] 2022. (Photo by Joe Raedle) Getty Images Spirit AirlinesSAVE pilots are pushing to amen...
Nobody Likes JetBlue’s Deal For Spirit. What If It Works?
A JetBlue A320 passes a Spirit A320 as it taxis at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport … [+] on July 7. (Photo by Wilfredo Lee) Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserv...
JetBlue shares tumble as costs push it to a loss despite profit forecast on higher fares
JetBlue Airways Airbus A320 passenger aircraft landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Nik Oiko | LightRocket | Getty Images JetBlue Airways shares tumbled more than 6% Tues...
JetBlue Reaches Deal to Acquire Discount Carrier Spirit Airlines
If the proposed acquisition of Spirit Airlines by JetBlue gets regulatory approval, it will lead to the creation of the fifth largest airline in the United States. American low-cost airline and the s...
JetBlue won the battle for Spirit. Now it has to win over Biden’s Justice Department
JetBlue Airlines and Spirit Airlines are seen on the departure board in the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on May 16, 2022 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images JetBl...
JetBlue to buy Spirit for $3.8 billion after monthslong fight for discounter
A JetBlue airliner lands past a Spirit Airlines jet on taxi way at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport on Monday, April 25, 2022. (Joe Cavaretta/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty...
JetBlue Announces $3.8 Billion Deal For Spirit After Frontier Merger Fails To Take Off
Topline JetBlue Airways on Thursday announced plans to purchase Spirit Airlines—a day after Spirit’s anticipated merger with Frontier fell apart—in a deal that could create the country’s fifth-largest...
Spirit And Frontier Airlines Cancel Merger Plans—Opening Door For JetBlue’s Offer
Topline Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines canceled their agreement to merge Wednesday, opening the door to rival airline JetBlue, which has also submitted a bid to acquire Spirit. Spirit Airlines ...