{"id":183475,"date":"2022-08-02T08:25:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=183475"},"modified":"2022-08-02T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T13:41:07","slug":"jetblue-buys-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/08\/02\/jetblue-buys-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"JetBlue buys Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Jet-Blue-Spirit-Twitter-1024x527.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-183525\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When everyone is complaining of JetBlue\u2019s poor service, the company announces it is buying Spirit. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2024. The purchase if approved would make the airline the fifth largest in the United States. Jet Blue carries the most travelers between the United States and the Dominican Republic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JetBlue executives argue the purchase would fast-track its growth by giving it access to more Airbus jetliners and pilots to help it compete with carriers such as American, Delta, United and Southwest.<br>\u201cWe have two priorities: one is to get this deal closed and get the airline integrated and build a bigger JetBlue,\u201d JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes said in an interview on Thursday, 28 July 2022. \u201cSecondly to run a reliable operation in the meantime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/07\/28\/jetblue-airways-reaches-deal-to-buy-spirit-airlines.html\">CNBC<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arecoa.com\/aerolineas\/2022\/07\/29\/jetblue-tiene-dinero-para-comprar-spirit-pero-no-mejora-sus-servicios\/\">Arecoa <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/07\/29\/air-travel-chaos-pilots-describe-toxic-culture-and-airline-errors.html\">CNBC <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/usa\/general\/2022\/07\/28\/adriano-espaillat-reacciona-a-compra-de-spirit-por-jetblue\/1975034\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 August 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When everyone is complaining of JetBlue\u2019s poor service, the company announces it is buying Spirit. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2024. The purchase if approved would make the airline the fifth largest in the United States. Jet Blue carries the most travelers between the United States and the Dominican &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/08\/02\/jetblue-buys-spirit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[294,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183527,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183475\/revisions\/183527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}