{"id":9598,"date":"2026-03-27T21:51:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=9598"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:51:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:51:34","slug":"jetblue-is-exploring-a-merger-with-these-rival-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=9598","title":{"rendered":"JetBlue Is Exploring a Merger With These Rival Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>JetBlue is quietly shopping for a buyer, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/03\/25\/2026\/jetblue-explores-potential-merger-partners\" id=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/03\/25\/2026\/jetblue-explores-potential-merger-partners\">according to Semafor<\/a>. The airline has tapped advisers to assess selling itself to a rival and has specifically scenario-planned how deals with United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, or Southwest Airlines might be received by regulators in Washington. JetBlue shares jumped 12% when the news broke.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after JetBlue\u2019s attempt to acquire Spirit Airlines was blocked on antitrust grounds in 2024. Since then, JetBlue shares have dropped more than 40% and the airline has struggled to compete with higher-end carriers like United and Delta while losing discount customers to Spirit and Frontier.<\/p>\n<p>United has long entertained buying JetBlue, but won\u2019t budge on price. The airlines already let customers book flights on each other\u2019s apps and redeem frequent-flier points. Any merger would face antitrust scrutiny, but deals are getting done under the current administration.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>JetBlue is quietly shopping for a buyer, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/03\/25\/2026\/jetblue-explores-potential-merger-partners\" id=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/03\/25\/2026\/jetblue-explores-potential-merger-partners\">according to Semafor<\/a>. The airline has tapped advisers to assess selling itself to a rival and has specifically scenario-planned how deals with United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, or Southwest Airlines might be received by regulators in Washington. JetBlue shares jumped 12% when the news broke.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after JetBlue\u2019s attempt to acquire Spirit Airlines was blocked on antitrust grounds in 2024. Since then, JetBlue shares have dropped more than 40% and the airline has struggled to compete with higher-end carriers like United and Delta while losing discount customers to Spirit and Frontier.<\/p>\n<p>United has long entertained buying JetBlue, but won\u2019t budge on price. The airlines already let customers book flights on each other\u2019s apps and redeem frequent-flier points. Any merger would face antitrust scrutiny, but deals are getting done under the current administration.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/jetblue-is-exploring-merger\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JetBlue is quietly shopping for a buyer, according to Semafor. The airline has tapped advisers to assess selling itself to a rival and has specifically scenario-planned how deals with United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, or Southwest Airlines might be received by regulators in Washington. JetBlue shares jumped 12% when the news broke. The move comes after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-brands"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}