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 [...]

The Star Alliance airline partnering group has continued to fare well and expanded its roster of members in recent years.  I wanted to take a look at the current members since Continental Airlines was just granted regulatory permission to join, making it the third US airline to be a Star Alliance member.  Their web site [...]