According to the Reuters transaction is to be worth $ 2.6 billion.
With this acquisition, Alaska Air will become the fifth largest airline in the US, and also give a new, lucrative air connections between San Francisco and Los Angeles, which previously handled Virgin America. Alaska Air also flies abroad, including Canada, Costa Rica and Mexico
Supervisory Boards of both companies agreed to pay $ 57 per share. The founder of Virgin, Richard Branson told the BBC that “unfortunately” nothing he could do to block the agreement.
This is the first call on commercial airlines u in the US since there was a marriage of US Airways and American Airlines, which together created the largest airline in the world in 2013.
Virgin America, which supports about 1.5 percent. all calls within the United States, is listed on the stock exchange in New York, as the daughter-company of the British Virgin Group.
Richard Branson wrote on his blog that skłamałby had said he did not feel sorry for him that his “great airline connects with another.” Branson wrote that his interest in Virgin America did not have such power to any oppose this transaction.
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