Allegiant Airline Emergency

[Made in the USA]

This is the airline that flies junkets out of Garden City and Liberal, I believe.

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[Made in the USA]

Really makes you want to run out and buy a ticket for today, especially since they crash landed a couple of days ago in Wichita!



Allegiant Air begins service from Wichita to Phoenix-Mesa today

Allegiant Air begins its twice-a-week service from Wichita Mid-Continent Airport to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport today. It will have flights from Wichita on Mondays and Fridays.

Allegiant is offering fares from Wichita to the destination as low as $59.99 one way (not including taxes.)

Including the Wichita service, Allegiant now serves 20 cities from the Phoenix-Mesa airport. That’s given the Arizona airport quite a boon.

In 2007, the airport served just 37,000 passengers, said Milt Fort, director of marketing for the Mesa Convention and Visitors Bureau. This year, that number will be in excess of 700,000.

“That’s a huge economic impact for us,” Fort said.

No kidding!

Fort is in Wichita for Allegiant’s inaugural flight today. On Thursday, he was meeting with Wichita airport and convention and visitor bureau officials to discuss how to promote the two cities.

The Mesa-Phoenix area is a popular place for “snowbirds” looking to get out of the winter cold, he said. People also come for the outdoor activities.

But residents in his area also want to visit the Midwest, he said. That’s according to a survey of airport passengers there.

Fort has been on the road a lot lately himself. In the past nine weeks, he’s traveled to 18 of the 20 cities Allegiant serves from his hometown. He plans to visit the last two cities the week after Thanksgiving.

Allegiant also operates nonstop flights from Wichita to Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

Read more: Allegiant Air begins service from Wichita to Phoenix-Mesa today | Air Capital Insider | Wichita Eagle Blogs

[jackknife]

Their flights are super cheap. Sometimes you can find a flight for $45 from Wichita to Los Angeles. Guess I won't be using them any time soon. I was trying to find flights for Christmas but I think maybe I'll focus on another airline!

[Jolly Rancher]

[quote=Made in the USA;125057]Really makes you want to run out and buy a ticket for today, especially since they crash landed a couple of days ago in Wichita!



Allegiant Air begins service...

Allegiant is offering fares from Wichita to the destination as low as $59.99 one way (not including taxes.)

Including the Wichita service, Allegiant now serves 20 cities from the Phoenix-Mesa airport. That’s given the Arizona airport quite a boon...quote]


That is why they only offer "one-way" tickets.

[Clueless]

This is the airline that flies junkets out of Garden City and Liberal, I believe.

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MIT -

Gotta disagree with you on this. Allegiant is far from a 'junket' flier - they've been very successful with a unique business plan that utilizes regional (non-hub) airports and flies direct to major hubs - primarily Vegas. No frills - can only book online. I've flown many times on Allegiant and never dissatisfied. They don't fly out of Garden or Liberal.

From what I know, they lost an engine on takeoff on the ICT flight and safely landed. That's not 'crash landing'. I'd fly them everyday and since we have daughters and grandchildren in Vegas and Phoenix - I guess we'll have a chance. I may be wrong, but I don't believe Allegiance deserves a thrashing for this incident.

[Made in the USA]

MIT -

Gotta disagree with you on this. Allegiant is far from a 'junket' flier - they've been very successful with a unique business plan that utilizes regional (non-hub) airports and flies direct to major hubs - primarily Vegas. No frills - can only book online. I've flown many times on Allegiant and never dissatisfied. They don't fly out of Garden or Liberal.

From what I know, they lost an engine on takeoff on the ICT flight and safely landed. That's not 'crash landing'. I'd fly them everyday and since we have daughters and grandchildren in Vegas and Phoenix - I guess we'll have a chance. I may be wrong, but I don't believe Allegiance deserves a thrashing for this incident.

I've gotta disagree back at you, Clueless. I fly Allegiant out of Garden City and Liberal to Harrah's Laughlin, Nevada a lot. Harrah's has them contracted to haul customers from all over the US, back to Bullhead City, Arizona, where they are bused across to Laughlin. They cannot fly out of DC because we have too small of an airport strip, and we have no control tower. By "junkets", I mean they fly "charter" for the casino. All passengers on those flights are headed to Harrah's. The crews that I know make several pickups and drops a day. I have always had good flights on Allegiant, and their planes always seem clean and well kept. What scares me about the deal, is why they had an engine explosion? Is their maintenance schedules and pre-flights being performed properly? As for the "crash landing" remark, if you read the article, they deployed the evacuation slides, etc. I can imagine those "Senior Citizens" coming down those evac slides----- probably with "greased" underwear----

[Clueless]

oops! I'll always play suck-up when I'm wrong - and I didn't know Allegiant was flying Charter work for the other casino's - so, my bad!!! I agree that their maintenance could be an issue, but birds can be an easy reason too (although not at 15,000", which was reported). I've been impressed with Allegiant's business model for several years because it was efficient and used secondary airports (Wichita, Colorado Springs, Ft. Collins, etc) and kept their costs down. I've got a resource on looking a little deeper on maintenance history - I'll be back. Thanks for the correction though - I'm always interested in what I don't know (which is considerable at times).