Spirit Airlines rejected Frontier Airlines’s second merger bid, opting to continue on its current path to emerge from bankruptcy. The low-cost airline filed for bankruptcy last year after the Justice Department blocked a proposed merger with JetBlue.

Denver-based Frontier Airlines says it’s ready to keep talking after bankrupt Spirit Airlines rejected its offer to merge.

Frontier and Spirit Airlines will once again try to merge, only months after the Biden administration won a key antitrust court battle to block