United States airline January traffic statistics as released by each carrier. The main statistics released on a monthly basis illustrate the carriers traffic illustrated here as a percentage increase or decrease from the same month one year earlier; carrier capacity illustrated here as a percentage increase of decrease from the same month one year earlier; [...]
Allegiant Airlines, low-cost leisure airline, has agreed to purchase 18 used MD-80 aircraft from Scandanavian Airlines Systems. Allegiant anticipates the cost of integrating these 18 MD-80’s into their fleet to be about $4 million. The aircraft will be delivered during the first three quarters of 2010 and will all be in service by the end [...]
Low-cost carrier Allegiant Air had found a home at Orlando Sanford International, but is planning a move of some Orlando flights to Orlando International Airport in a few months. Allegiant Air has made a niche for themselves in the commercial airline industry by operating efficient point-to-point flights between large, leisure markets and smaller cities a [...]
The airlines continue to struggle to fill planes and keep fares high enough to make money. October saw low-cost airlines continue to post traffic and capacity increases with AirTran, Allegiant, and JetBlue the only carriers that grew in size and traffic.
Allegiant continues to grow at very strong rates. Allegiant Air is a low-cost model airline [...]
The third quarter had few surprises with the smaller, low-cost centric airlines posting profits, and the bigger guys posting losses. Some of the losses were smaller than expected, and some were rather large and foreboding.
WINNERS
Alaska – Net Income $83 million
Hawaiian – Net Income $31 million
Frontier – Net Income $16 million (consolidated July/August only)
JetBlue – Net [...]
Below is a recap of U.S. airlines September operational performance. There was a delay since Southwest did not release their figures until this morning.
AirTran – Capacity up 7.2%; Traffic up 11.0%; Load Factor 77.0%
Alaska – Capcity down 1.4%; Traffic up 1.4%; Load Factor 77.9%
Allegiant – Capacity up 50.2%; Traffic up 46.1%; Load Factor 85.2%
American – [...]
Allegiant air announced Wednesday it was expanding its service from Wichita Mid-Continent Airport to include twice-weekly flights to Phoenix-Mesa. These flights are in addition to service to Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
US Airways announced just last week it would eliminate flights at Wichita. The airline was operating twice-daily flights to Phoenix.
Here are some key numbers from US Airlines posted performance for August 2009…
AirTran – Capacity down 3.4%; Traffic down 6.1%; Load Factor 84.9%
Alaska – Capacity down 2.9%; Traffic down 0.8%; Load Factor 84.3%
Allegiant – Capacity up 50.9%; Traffic up 45.8%; Load Factor 90.2%
American – Capacity down 9.4%; Traffic down 8.1%; Load Factor 84.7%
Continental – Capacity [...]
Allegiant Airlines has announced that they have exercised 120-day notice clauses in their five Cuban Family charter contracts to terminate the agreements and cease flying those routes.
Allegiant says that it is doing this because the Cuban charter program brings unwanted complexity to their operations that currently focus on simplicity and efficiency.
The one dedicated aircraft that [...]
As most other airlines are reducing capacity and shrinking staff, routes, aircraft and cities served, Allegiant Air continues to grow at a comparably fast pace and profit with margins greater than most all other domestic carriers.
For the second quarter of 2009 Allegiant posted admirable results as listed below:
12.5% increase in revenue over 2008
$38 million operating [...]
