Mergers in the offing? Link here.
- United and Jet Blue
- Allegient, Frontier and Spirit could merge;
- these three airlines have a 3% market share, maybe a little more now since they are so domestic
- they could be a really terrific competitor to the Big Four because they are so low cost and their so domestic and leisure focused.
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The big four now includes Southwest Airlines. Pretty amazing. The other three, of course: American Airlines, Delta, and United.
The list of "defunct" airlines in the United States is so long, wiki had to break the article into pieces.
List of "defunct" oil companies? Wiki lists at least 82 pages.
