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

JetBlue Airways founder David NeelemanPhoto: Horacio Villalobos/Corbis (Getty Images)In This StoryThe founder of JetBlue Airways (JBLU-6.09%) added insult to injury following the airline’s ill-fated merger attempt with Spirit Airlines (SAVE+53.06%). 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-1.29%) instead, a bitter irony all around.The pill form of Novo Nordisk’s drug Ozempic can cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes, according to a new studyFor 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 together. But then JetBlue swooped in with a spendier offer to become Spirit’s dancing partner instead. But after a judge blocked the JetBlue-Spirit merger on anti-trust grounds in January, the two companies abandoned the effort in March.The next irony is about…