JetBlue’s founder thinks Spirit Airlines should have found a better match

The founder of JetBlue Airways (JBLU) added insult to injury following the airline’s ill-fated merger attempt with Spirit Airlines (SAVE). David Neeleman, who left the company in 2007 and now runs Breeze Airways, told the Washington Post that Spirit should have merged with Frontier Airlines (ULCC) instead, a bitter irony all around.

For one, that had been Spirit’s plan at first. In 2022, it announced a merger with Frontier that would have put two of America’s biggest low-fare flyers…