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Frontier Airlines
expects a revenue boost from Spirit Airlines’ collapse over the weekend, a shuttering that removed Spirit’s capacity from the market overnight.
“Drawing on the benefits realized from prior Spirit capacity adjustments, we believe their exit supports a [revenue per available seat mile] uplift of 3% to 5% going forward,” Frontier’s chief commercial officer, Bobby Schroeter, said on an earnings call Tuesday.
Just before Spirit ceased operations, marking the biggest U.S. airline collapse in a generation, the budget airline had 35% overlap with Frontier’s seats and 31% with JetBlue Airways
