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July 28, 2022 - 7:58am | By Kyle Cornell
(New York, NY) -- JetBlue Airways has deal to buy Spirit Airlines for three-point-eight billion dollars.
The agreement announced Thursday comes hours after Spirit scrapped plans to merge with Frontier Airlines.
JetBlue's acquisition of the discount carrier would create the country's fifth-largest airline, if regulators approve the deal. It would leave Frontier as the biggest discount airline in the U.S.