Spirit Mergers and Acquisitions Presentation Deck
》》》 Third-Party Experts Agree That the Frontier Merger
Provides Far Greater Certainty than JetBlue's Offer
Informed market participants consistently assess substantial completion risk in a JetBlue / Spirit combination
Experts Agree JetBlue's Proposal Faces Substantial Regulatory Risk...
"A big surprise to us...greater
regulatory hurdles for JBLU since it's
bigger with higher fares (i.e. JBLU/SAVE
would eliminate a ULCC with lower
fares)"
"We struggle with the idea given both
airlines are concentrated on the East
Coast with significant operations in Fort
Lauderdale, and would suspect there
will be heavy regulatory pushback"
MKM Partners
- Wolfe Research
"The regulatory process doesn't look
challenging...for example, of 86
overlapping nonstop domestic
markets, none will consolidate to
solely the combined entity"
- JP Morgan
Source: Analyst Reports, Law360
"The question of antitrust approvals is
never easy, but in the current
climate, I would say a pass by DOJ
is all but impossible"
...In Stark Contrast to the Positive Commentary Surrounding Frontier / Spirit's Ability to Close
"Little route overlap should lead to few
regulatory issues...Other mergers have
focused on network carriers with large
hub exposures...not the case in this deal,
and we anticipate few regulatory hurdles"
- Bank of America
"This is a merger between two small
airlines joining forces to drive greater
competition, while the NEA is about
JetBlue helping a large (big = bad)
airline"
- Max Huffman, Indiana U. Antitrust
Professor, in Law360
- Raymond James
12View entire presentation