60 Minutes segment on Allegiant Air

[JP4CY]

I have flown numerous times to Vegas. Some pretty disturbing information.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flyer-beware-60-minutes-allegiant-air-investigation/

 

[baller21]

Beat me by seconds.

 

[2020cy]

Getting raked over the coals.

 

[Rabbuk]

time to short allegiant boys.

 

[Rogue52]

Flying this Thursday.

 

[CloneGuy8]

Damn. I really like Allegiant too.

 

[3TrueFans]

Flew Allegiant to Florida for spring break and again this summer, I'll just ignore this.

 

[tim_redd]

Do you want cheap flights or do you want to make it to your destination?

 

[ArgentCy]

Pretty sure I knew they had question able service. Didn't see the piece though.

 

[johnstoncy]

Pretty sure I knew they had question able service. Didn't see the piece though.

More like questionable safety and maintenance, no problem though if you are properly vaccinated.

 

[CyTwins]

Always fly Allegiant to Vegas too

 

[IcSyU]

The company which buys old planes and charges cheaper rates than everyone else may or may not be taking maintenance shortcuts?

Who could have seen that coming?

 

[3TrueFans]

I know Allegiant has some older aircraft that they were switching out for new A320's, I wonder what the breakdown of incidents for each type of aircraft is.

 

[cyclonestate]

Because of this horrible PR, Allegiant has finally dumped most (or all?) of their ancient DC-10's which are like old cars with 200,000+ miles on the odometer, so hopefully their safety record will improve, but I would still avoid the airline.

I thought the 60 Minutes segment was just as damning toward the spineless FAA.

 

[baller21]

time to short allegiant boys.

Nope. Gonna have to paint their planes black and gold to earn the cf boycott.

 

[johnstoncy]

Because of this horrible PR, Allegiant has finally dumped most (or all?) of their ancient DC-10's which are like old cars with 200,000+ miles on the odometer, so hopefully their safety record will improve, but I would still avoid the airline.

I thought the 60 Minutes segment was just as damning toward the spineless FAA.

Assume you mean old MD-80s. No one flys DC-10s anymore for passenger service.

 

[cyclonestate]

You are correct. My mistake.

 

[baller21]

Because of this horrible PR, Allegiant has finally dumped most (or all?) of their ancient DC-10's which are like old cars with 200,000+ miles on the odometer, so hopefully their safety record will improve, but I would still avoid the airline.

I thought the 60 Minutes segment was just as damning toward the spineless FAA.

It sure sounds like someone with the FAA has been getting envelopes stuffed with cash.

 

[wxman1]

It was as much damming on the FAA as it was on Allegiant. Morale of the story you get what you pay for. I hate their practices but am I or anyone else going to pay damn near double to fly a mainline carrier to get to Vegas/Florida especially when you consider the other options are pretty much guaranteed to have multiple legs compared to direct.

I standby the fact that it is an absolute miracle nothing has happened thus far. This incident in which the in which the Chief Pilot flew Vegas to Fargo only to arrive to find out the airport was closed for a Blue Angel practice ahead of that weekends airshow so what does he do? Declares an emergency requiring the Blue Angels to stop practicing so he can have the airport. So much is wrong with that since both the pilots and the flight dispatcher should have seen the TFR in place closing the airfield for that period of time. Not to mention he claimed he was low on fuel requiring on emergency landing which if true would have meant they were not carrying the required extra fuel.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/allegiant-air-pilot-pleads-atc-make-emergency-landing-closed-airport/

 

[somecyguy]

Always fly Allegiant to Vegas too

Are ya feeling lucky?