Late night hosts wasted no time in lampooning JetBlue’s decision to acquire Spirit Airlines, offering a hilarious take on the deal that is not without a degree of truth.
Late Night Hosts Weigh In On Lampoon JetBlue – Spirit Merger
After the Spirit – Frontier merger fell through, Spirit Airlines wasted no time in moving on the JetBlue, which offered a sweeter deal to shareholders to acquire the budget carrier. If the merger passes regulatory approval, JetBlue plans to transform Spirit into its own image, adding seat pitch, seatback screens, and precisely the onboard amenities that Spirit has deliberately avoided in order to offer the lowest fares possible for transport.
With JetBlue facing operational difficulties this summer it blames on a labor shortage, the late night TV talk shows hosts went to town.
CNN compiled various shows into a nice montage, which is worth a few minutes of your time to watch:
Late night hosts poked fun at JetBlue’s deal to buy Spirit Airlines for $3.8 billion, a merger that could create the fifth-largest airline in the US https://t.co/SzyRgG0OHy pic.twitter.com/ZScgy855iU
— CNN (@CNN) July 29, 2022
Some of my favorite lines:
“JetBlue and Spirit. It’s the perfect marriage between broken TVs and broken planes.” – Jimmy Fallon
“That’s right. Spirit agreed to a deal with JetBlue and cancelled their merger with Frontier Airlines. Today, Frontier Airlines was like, ‘Well, it’s Spirit. How did we not see this cancellation coming?” – Jimmy Fallon
“It’s historic. This is the first time anyone wanted Spirit Airlines. It’s normally the last choice behind, ‘Can’t we just walk between Albany and Rochester?'” – Stephen Colbert
“This deal comes between a long bidding war between JetBlue and Frontier which is why insiders say getting to an agreement was a rocky process. Oh, you mean it was turbulent?” – Stephen Colbert
These quips have been going on for several months. In May, Fallon had joked:
“JetBlue is attempting the purchase through a hostile takeover. A “hostile takeover” is also how Spirit describes their boarding process.”
But jokes aside, unless regulators block it this deal is going through…
screengrab: CNN/CBS
A face I would never tire of punching!!
How many people say that about you?
CNN is fake news Matthew, I wouldn’t reference any of their content.
Most of these late night hosts are just propaganda distribution for the low iq lefties that use them to turn their world view.
As opposed to genius leader of the republican party Lauren Bobert that took 4 tries to get her G.E.D.
Must have been a liberal biased test
Oh look another low info voter.
Oh yea… your high info… slurping up all the sh*t tucker Carlson and fox news feeds you.. hahaha. Thanks for the laugh Chad. When is your court date from storming the capital?
You should watch him. You might learn something. But my guess is for you enjoy the liberal media programming that indoctrinated you.
Fox news argued in court during a defamation suit that no reasonable person would take tucker carlson seriously. Fox news even knows that he is full of sh*t, they keep him on because drones like you faithfully give him ratings.
Yet they still are more truthful than the liberal media that still claims to be impartial.
People still watch those shows?
Fun to see all the conservative cucks get their panties in a bunch with posts like this.
Stick to Gutfeld, chumps.
Gotta say that it’s weird and kind of dispiriting (no pun intended) to see comments on this post devolve into a political argument. I’m as political an animal as they come, but I know there’s a time and a place for politics — and the comments section in an article about comedians who make fun of airlines isn’t it.
JetBlue is desperate to attempt to correct the mistakes of the past decade. Sadly, it’s going to cost $4B plus the price of training all the NK crews, and converting their aircraft to the jB standard…all to get to where they were supposed to be in 2012…They still haven’t figured out the west (for them that’s anything west of the Hudson River) and they have so much overlap they’re only adding 5 cities, most of which will get chopped by the years end. So you have Eastern 3.0 and no future but a small east coast region that goes to London once, and maybe Paris if they can get another airplane. Meanwhile, United is getting 2-3 airplanes a week, and hiring 50-70 pilots (150-210 flight attendants) every week. jB will have to rehire the 800 pilots they hired last year, since most of them left already.