Amy Scott

So that's, you know, we're working on that as a winter issue.

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Yeah.

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Vance and Louise Emke grow wheat and sell grain seeds to other farmers out in Healy, Kansas.

Thank you so much for your time.

Sure.

Thank you.

Two of the country's lower-cost airlines are planning to merge.

Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel has offered to buy Sun Country Airlines, headquartered in the Twin Cities, for about $1.5 billion.

Both airlines are small and both are profitable, unlike other budget domestic carriers, which have been struggling recently.

Marketplace's Samantha Fields has more.

These two airlines are made for each other, at least if you ask Charles Duncan of investment firm Altitude X Aviation Group.

And unlike other budget airlines, namely Frontier and Spirit, they're both doing well financially.

One reason for that?

Frontier and Spirit, meanwhile, fly more heavily trafficked routes.

And Meghna Maharishi at the travel news website Skift says they've been facing greater competition on those routes.

Plus, she says what travelers want has shifted in the last few years in a way that also benefits legacy airlines.

Delta reported strong revenue today, much of it from premium.

But Henry Hardevelt at Atmosphere Research Group says plenty of people are still looking for cheap tickets.