Spirit and Frontier Airlines announce a $6.6 billion merger, a combination of low-fare carriers that would create America's fifth-largest airline
The companies have yet to say what brand they'll fly under or who would lead management of the new airline. The combined company would offer more than 1,000 daily flights to over 145 destinations.The merged carrier would leapfrog JetBlue and Alaska Air in the number of miles flown by paying passengers, according to 2021 statistics, putting them behind the four major airlines that control about 80% of the nation's air traffic -- American , Delta , United and Southwest Airlines .
25 complaints per 100,000 passengers, according to stats from January through September last year kept by the US Department of Transportation. JetBlue had the second most complaints on that basis with 6.85, while Frontier had the third most in the industry with 5.76. Frontier had by far the worst rate of complaints in the same period of 2020, when it had 60.24 complaints per 100,000 customers.
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