NEW YORK (AP) — Frontier Airlines is attempting for a second time to merge with the now bankrupt Spirit Airlines, which declared bankruptcy late last year as budget airlines struggle.

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Spirit Airlines rejected Frontier Airlines' second attempt of trying to merge and is moving forward with its bankruptcy plans ...

Frontier had pitched the bankrupt airline on a coupledom that it claimed would have created a formidable low-cost competitor ...