{"id":816,"date":"2016-03-09T01:17:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T07:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2016-03-09T01:51:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T07:51:15","slug":"allegiant-air-announces-3-new-cities-22-new-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"Allegiant Air announces 3 new cities and 22 new routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Allegiant Air has announced its service is expanding to 3 new cities with\u00a022 new routes.\u00a0Allegiant Air will be adding service for the first time to the cities of\u00a0Albuquerque, New Mexico,\u00a0Evansville, Indiana, and Sonoma, California. The new routes announced include service between the following city pairs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Austin, Texas\u00a0&#8211; Albuquerque, New Mexico (starts\u00a0June 2, 2016)<\/li>\n<li>Destin-Fort Walton Beach, Florida &#8211;\u00a0Fort Lauderdale, Florida (May 26\u00a0to\u00a0August 14)<\/li>\n<li>Destin-Fort Walton Beach, Florida &#8211;\u00a0Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (May 26\u00a0to\u00a0August 14)<\/li>\n<li>Destin-Fort Walton Beach, Florida &#8211;\u00a0Knoxville, Tennessee (May 27\u00a0to\u00a0August 15)<\/li>\n<li>Destin-Fort Walton Beach, Florida &#8211;\u00a0Memphis, Tennessee\u00a0(May 27\u00a0to\u00a0August 15)<\/li>\n<li>Jacksonville, Florida &#8211;\u00a0Columbus, Ohio (May 25\u00a0to\u00a0August 13)<\/li>\n<li>Jacksonville, Florida &#8211;\u00a0Asheville, North Carolina (May 27\u00a0to\u00a0August 15)<\/li>\n<li>Jacksonville, Florida &#8211;\u00a0Belleville, Illinois (May 27\u00a0to\u00a0August 15)<\/li>\n<li>Jacksonville, Florida &#8211;\u00a0Indianapolis (starts\u00a0June 2)<\/li>\n<li>Las Vegas, Nevada &#8211;\u00a0Sonoma, California\u00a0(starts May 19)<\/li>\n<li>Las Vegas, Nevada &#8211;\u00a0Albuquerque, New Mexico (starts June 2)<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles, California (LAX)\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Memphis, Tennessee (June 2\u00a0to\u00a0August 14)<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles, California (LAX)\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Reno, Nevada\u00a0(starts\u00a0June 9)<\/li>\n<li>Myrtle Beach, South Carolina &#8211;\u00a0Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (May 19 to September 18)<\/li>\n<li>Myrtle Beach, South Carolina &#8211;\u00a0Toledo, Ohio (June 3\u00a0to\u00a0September 26)<\/li>\n<li>Myrtle Beach, South Carolina &#8211;\u00a0Stewart, New York (June 16\u00a0to\u00a0September)<\/li>\n<li>Myrtle Beach, South Carolina &#8211;\u00a0Stewart, New York (June 16\u00a0to\u00a0September)<\/li>\n<li>New Orleans &#8211;\u00a0Tulsa, Oklahoma (May 26\u00a0to\u00a0October 16)<\/li>\n<li>Orlando, Florida (Sanford Airport) &#8211; Akron\/Canton, Ohio (starts May 19)<\/li>\n<li>Orlando, Florida\u00a0(Sanford Airport) &#8211;\u00a0Wichita, Kansas (May 25 to August 13)<\/li>\n<li>Orlando, Florida\u00a0(Sanford Airport) &#8211;\u00a0El Paso, Texas (May 27\u00a0to August 15)<\/li>\n<li>Orlando, Florida\u00a0(Sanford Airport) &#8211;\u00a0Evansville, Indiana (starts\u00a0June 2)<\/li>\n<li>Phoenix, Arizona (Mesa Gateway Airport) &#8211; Sonoma, California (starts\u00a0May 26)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Allegiant Air safety concerns continue<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Allegiant Air has repeatedly\u00a0suffered from a high rate of emergency landings, flight delays, and aborted takeoff attempts.\u00a0The Allegiant Air pilots union released a report stating that the\u00a0airline&#8217;s approach to maintenance is not up to industry standards.\u00a0Allegiant Air operates a fleet of around\u00a080 aircraft.\u00a0Allegiant has\u00a0accused the union\u00a0of portraying the airline as unsafe\u00a0as a ploy to gain leverage in stalled contract negotiations. However, the sheer number of documented incidents don&#8217;t lie. Allegations of maintenance failures include lack of documentation of mechanic work performed,\u00a0maintenance performed by mechanics with\u00a0little experience on MD-80 aircraft type,\u00a0and\u00a0failure to follow proper maintenance procedures on\u00a0redundant aircraft components. The airlines management has publicly stated that it&#8217;s focused on improving the safety image of the company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-822\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Allegiant-Air-300x122.jpg\" alt=\"Allegiant Air\" width=\"642\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Allegiant-Air-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Allegiant-Air-768x313.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Allegiant-Air-1024x418.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">image from allegiantair.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allegiant Air has announced its service is expanding to 3 new cities with\u00a022 new routes.\u00a0Allegiant Air will be adding service for the first time to the cities of\u00a0Albuquerque, New Mexico,\u00a0Evansville, Indiana, and Sonoma, California. The new routes announced include service between the following city pairs: Austin, Texas\u00a0&#8211; Albuquerque, New Mexico (starts\u00a0June 2, 2016) Destin-Fort Walton [&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":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","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=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}