Airplane model is placed on displayed Spirit Airlines and jetBlue Airways logos in this illustration taken, June 21, 2022.
REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationsOct 19 (Reuters) - Shareholders of U.S. carrier Spirit Airlines Inc (SAVE.N) on Wednesday voted in favor of JetBlue Airways Corp's (JBLU.O) $3.8 billion takeover offer, moving the companies closer to creating the nation's fifth-largest carrier.
Spirit and JetBlue expect to conclude the regulatory process and close the deal no later than the first half of 2024.
However, New York-based Spirit in July sided with JetBlue's revised offer, a day after terminating its $2.7 billion merger deal with Frontier.
read more read moreSpirit's shares were up 0.7% in morning trade on Wednesday.