Allegiant Air
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| IATA code : | G4 |
| ICAO code : | AAY |
| Call sign : | ALLEGIANT |
| Founding: | 1997 (as WestJet Express) |
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Las Vegas , United States
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| Home airport : | McCarran International Airport |
| ISIN : | US01748X1028 |
| Management: | Maurice J. Gallagher, Jr. ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees: | 3,901 (2018) |
| Sales: | US $ 1.67 billion (2018) |
| Passenger volume: | 13.75 million (2018) |
| Fleet size: | 101 |
| Aims: | national |
| Website: | allegiantair.com |
Allegiant Air is a US low-cost airline based in Las Vegas and based at McCarran International Airport .
history
Allegiant Air was founded in 1997 and started flight operations in 1999 from Fresno, California, with used Douglas DC-9s .
After Allegiant Air filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on December 13, 2000 , the company was restructured by its new CEO, Maurice J. Gallagher. Since then it has had its home base in Las Vegas . Gallagher concentrated on routes that were not served by the other large American airlines, or only with a small aircraft. The DC-9 fleet was replaced by used McDonnell Douglas MD-80s and has grown steadily ever since.
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At the beginning of March 2010, Allegiant Air announced that it would take over six Boeing 757-200s from the European airline Thomson Airways by 2012 , which will primarily be used on new routes to Hawaii . For this, the aircraft need an ETOPS approval .
When an Allegiant Air MD-83 had to evacuate passengers on the escape slide on September 16, 2013, the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States ( FAA ) determined that the airline may inadequate maintenance of the escape slide. As a result, almost the entire MD-80 fleet was temporarily shut down.
Flights to Hawaii were discontinued in October 2017 and the Boeing 757-200 fleet was subsequently withdrawn.
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On November 28, 2018, the last flights were carried out with aircraft of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series. Since then, only aircraft from the Airbus A320 family have been used.
On August 5, 2019, Allegiant Air acquired the naming rights to the Raiders' new stadium under construction in Las Vegas . Since then, the structure, previously known as Las Vegas Stadium , has been called Allegiant Stadium .
Destinations
Allegiant Air connects numerous large and small airports within the USA from its 16 bases. These include Orlando – Sanford , St. Petersburg , Las Vegas , Punta Gorda , Phoenix – Mesa , Destin and Los Angeles .
fleet
As of March 2020, the Allegiant Air fleet consists of 101 aircraft with an average age of 13.9 years:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats |
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| Airbus A319-100 | 38 | 156 | ||
| Airbus A320-200 | 63 | 13 equipped with winglets ; six inactive | 177
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| total | 101 | - |
Former aircraft types
- Boeing 757-200
- McDonnell Douglas DC-9-20
- McDonnell Douglas DC-9-50
- McDonnell Douglas MD-83
- McDonnell Douglas MD-88
See also
Web links
- Web presence of Allegiant Air (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Annual Reports. IR.AllegiantAir.com, accessed April 12, 2020 .
- ↑ allegiantair.com - ALLEGIANT TRAVEL COMPANY TO PURCHASE SIX BOEING 757 AIRCRAFT, March 5, 2010 ( Memento of March 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ aerotelegraph.com - MD80 make Allegiant trouble, accessed September 23, 2013
- ↑ Allegiant phases out 757s and exits Hawaii. FlightGlobal .com, November 9, 2017, accessed April 12, 2020 .
- ^ Allegiant Air ends McDonnell Douglas operations. ch-aviation .com, December 3, 2018, accessed on April 12, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Richard N. Velotta: 'Allegiant stage' official name for Raiders' Las Vegas stage. In: reviewjournal.com. Las Vegas Review-Journal , August 5, 2019, accessed August 5, 2019 .
- ^ Raiders, Allegiant Agree On Naming Rights Deal For Las Vegas Stadium. IR.AllegiantAir.com, August 5, 2019, accessed April 12, 2020 .
- ^ Allegiant Air Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
- ↑ allegiantair.com - Airline, Aircraft & Airports (English) accessed on February 26, 2015
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