{"id":331,"date":"2016-01-29T02:10:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T08:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2016-02-15T16:04:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:04:38","slug":"is-allegiant-finally-getting-serious-about-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Is Allegiant finally getting serious about maintenance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the bad publicity that\u00a0Allegiant Airlines has gotten lately about its perceived poor maintenance practices, I found it ironic that I came across a job posting today on LinkedIn looking for a &#8220;Manager os Safety Programs&#8221;\u00a0at Allegiant. The abrupt resignation of COO Steve Harfst after just 13 months left many wondering if\u00a0his head was the first to roll for\u00a0the airline&#8217;s highly publicized maintenance and operational problems\u00a0during 2015.\u00a0This departure came the same month as\u00a0a former Allegiant mechanics, who\u00a0quit after just two weeks, because\u00a0he felt the airlines\u00a0mechanics operated in &#8220;a poor safety culture&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-332\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/allegiant-1-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"allegiant\" width=\"663\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/allegiant-1-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/allegiant-1-768x368.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/allegiant-1-1024x490.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/allegiant-1.jpg 1855w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the bad publicity that\u00a0Allegiant Airlines has gotten lately about its perceived poor maintenance practices, I found it ironic that I came across a job posting today on LinkedIn looking for a &#8220;Manager os Safety Programs&#8221;\u00a0at Allegiant. The abrupt resignation of COO Steve Harfst after just 13 months left many wondering if\u00a0his head was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-allegiant-airlines-safety-maintenance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}