60 Minutes segment on Allegiant Air

ArgentCy

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

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 
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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/
 
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