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Republic Airways Announced as Winning Bidder in Auction of Frontier Airlines

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*Republic waived recovery rights to claim

*Southwest cites labor issue

ATLANTA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Republic Airways Holdings (RJET.O) won an auction to acquire bankrupt Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc (FRNTQ.PK) over discount carrier Southwest Airlines Co (LUV.N), the carriers said on Thursday.

"Republic submitted the highest and best bid, which included substantial improvements from its original investment proposal," Frontier said in its statement.

Those enhancements included Republic's agreement to waive recovery rights on its $150 million general unsecured claim, a move expected to boost the distribution to Frontier's unsecured creditors by 94 percent, Frontier said. Republic was Frontier's largest unsecured creditor.

Southwest, which had submitted a bid of more than $170 million earlier this week, said a key reason its bid wasn't chosen was because it chose not to remove a requirement calling for pilot unions at its company and Frontier to reach agreement.

Seniority was a major sticking point in talks between pilots at Southwest and Frontier, the head of Southwest's pilot union had said earlier on Thursday.

"Despite a good faith and diligent effort by all involved, including the top leadership of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association and the Frontier Airlines Pilots Association .... the two unions were not able to come to an agreement before the auction deadline," Southwest said in its statement. "As a result, Southwest's bid was deemed unacceptable."

Indianapolis-based Republic had reached a deal to acquire Frontier for $108.75 billion earlier this summer. Southwest said in late July it was preparing a bid to acquire Frontier for a minimum of $113.6 million to resume growth. It had sweetened its binding offer to more than $170 million this week.

Frontier, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April 2008, said it expected to emerge from Chapter 11 in the autumn.

The case is In re: Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, No. 08-11298. (Reporting by Karen Jacobs and Deepa Seetharaman; editing by Carol Bishopric)
 
Doesn't look good. Being stappled to the SW senority sheet would be the best thing for them.
 
Wow.....the SWA would have been infinitely more beneficial. It will be interesting to see how the integration is going to work with Republic. And don't kid yourself thinking there isn't going to be one.
 
Everyone knew what the plan for F9 was at WN. Does anyone know what the plan is for F9 at RAH? Are they going to run it seperate...combine it...whatever they do they have to make it make money...no more having other airlunes sell the tickets and pay the fuel.
 
Whatever they do with them, Republic is just dragging them to the bottom. Sorry to hear for you Frontier guys.
 
they cant run frontier seperate it goes against the pilot and fas contract. it must be one seniority list. also curious whats gonna happen with the midwest/frontier codeshare.
 

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