Daily Podcast: JetBlue’s Shock Bid for Spirit Airlines


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Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast explains why JetBlue wants to buy Spirit, Sonder’s hotel-like moves, and Sri Lanka’s challenges with its biggest tourist market.

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JetBlue Airways has shocked the aviation industry by submitting a $3.6 billion bid for low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines, potentially derailing Spirit’s planned merger with Frontier Airlines, reports Madhu Unnikrishnan, editor of Airline Weekly, a Skift brand.

Spirit confirmed it had received an unsolicited off