Spirit Airlines Inc. on Wednesday postponed a key shareholder vote on a proposed deal with Frontier Group Holding Inc. until next week.
What Happened
The Florida-based airline said it aims to discuss more options with Frontier and rival suitor JetBlue Airways Corp..
This is the second time Spirit has postponed the vote and said the meeting will now reconvene on July 8.
The development comes a day after JetBlue sweetened its offer to buy Spirit, which the latter rejected and instead, recommended shareholders to vote in favor of a merger with Frontier at a meeting on Thursday.
Takeover War
The battle for Spirit began in February with Frontier’s cash-and-stock offer of $25.83 a share. JetBlue entered the bid in early April with an all-cash $33 per share, or $3.6 billion, bid for Spirit….