Ua lanakila ʻo Republic Airways Holdings Inc. i ke kūʻai kūʻai ʻana o ka ʻaha panakalupa e kūʻai iā Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc., e noi ana i $108.8 miliona e lanakila ai ma Southwest Airlines Co.
Ua ʻae pū ʻo Republic e haʻalele i ka hāʻawi ʻana i kāna $ 150 miliona ma mua o ka hoʻopiʻi ʻana i hoʻopiʻi ʻole ʻia, ua ʻōlelo ʻo Frontier i kēia lā ma kahi ʻōlelo ʻokoʻa. ʻAʻole naʻe i nānā ka luna kānāwai o US Bankruptcy Robert Drain ma New York a me nā regulators i ke kūʻai aku. Hāʻawi ʻo Southwest i $ 170 miliona ʻAukake 10, ma mua o ka hoʻomaka ʻana o ke kudala.
"Ke kakali nei au i ka hoʻokipa ʻana iā Frontier i ko mākou ʻohana Repubalika," i ʻōlelo ai ʻo Bryan Bedford, ka luna nui o ka Repubalika, i kēia lā ma ka ʻōlelo a kēlā mokulele.
ʻO ka Repubalika i hoʻokumu ʻia ʻo Indianapolis ʻo ia ka 11th-nui loa ka mea lawe moku US i ka makahiki i hala ma muli o ke kaʻa kaʻa kaʻa, ʻoiai ʻo Frontier i hoʻokumu ʻia ʻo Denver ʻo 13th a ʻo Dallas ma Southwest ka lima, e like me ka ʻikepili i hōʻuluʻulu ʻia e Bloomberg.
Hoʻohana ʻo Republic i nā huakaʻi kaʻahele no nā mea lawe nui e like me Delta Air Lines Inc. a me UAL Corp.'s United Airlines a ua ʻōlelo ʻo ia e hana ʻo Frontier ma ke ʻano he lālā. Aia ka Repubalika i nā moku lawe moku ʻo Chautauqua Airlines, Shuttle America a me Midwest Airlines, i loaʻa iā ia ma Iulai 31.
ʻO ke komohana hema, ka mea lawe hoʻemi nui loa o ka honua, i hāʻawi mua i $113.6 miliona i ka lā 30 Iulai.
Ua waiho ʻo Frontier no ka panakalupa i ʻApelila 2008 a ua ʻae ʻo ia ma Iune 22 e loaʻa iā Republic no $108.8 miliona, ma mua o ka hāʻawi kiʻekiʻe o Southwest.
Aia ka hihia ma Frontier Airline Holdings Inc., 08-11298, US Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
