{"id":921,"date":"2016-03-28T15:13:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2016-03-28T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:19:00","slug":"time-faa-shutdown-allegiant-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"Is it time for FAA to shutdown Allegiant Air?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it time for the FAA to shutdown Allegiant Air? That’s the question I’m asking myself after yet another incident involving the discount air carrier. Allegiant Air\u00a0Flight 682 with service\u00a0from Orlando to Grand Rapids, Michigan, returned to the gate 3 times last Wednesday afternoon before the flight was officially canceled. Each time the plane returned to the gate, the passengers were moved onto another aircraft. This means that a total of\u00a03 different\u00a0airplanes had issues.<\/p>\n

The first\u00a0airplane took to the skies\u00a020 minutes behind schedule, but headed back to Orlando after\u00a0half an hour due to\u00a0a problem with a sensor. The second airplane returned to the gate after beginning to taxi due to a sensor indicated that\u00a0one of the airplanes 2 engines was overheating.\u00a0The third had to go back after leaving the gate due to aircraft cabin lighting issues.\u00a0According to the airline, passengers were offered a\u00a0hotel room for the night, the option to rebook their\u00a0flight or get a full refund without charge, and\u00a0a\u00a0$200 voucher for future travel.<\/p>\n

Shutdown Allegiant Air to improve passenger\u00a0confidence<\/h2>\n

I went to\u00a0book a $29 each way\u00a0ticket on the Allegiant Air website to Albuquerque, New Mexico. This was for a new route from Austin that had just been\u00a0announced. However, I did not complete the purchase due to the fact that I did not want to potentially risk our safety\u00a0flying on this airline. I’m sure that all airlines have daily issues with aircraft, but there seems to be a rash of\u00a0reports popping up about this specific carrier. The airline\u00a0is suffering from labor turmoil, so maybe these issues are\u00a0coming to light due to the pressure being applied by the airline’s\u00a0employee groups. If the FAA were to step in and shutdown Allegiant Air\u00a0pending a review of\u00a0the airlines maintenance procedures, the result could be a major improvement in consumer confidence for\u00a0the airline upon completion of the process.<\/p>\n

\"shutdown<\/p>\n

Image from\u00a0www.allegiantair.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it time for the FAA to shutdown Allegiant Air? That’s the question I’m asking myself after yet another incident involving the discount air carrier. Allegiant Air\u00a0Flight 682 with service\u00a0from Orlando to Grand Rapids, Michigan, returned to the gate 3 times last Wednesday afternoon before the flight was officially canceled. Each time the plane returned […]<\/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-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}