Anyone considering work at Allegiant should understand the hornet's nest they are walking into and the miserable conditions a reserve FO can expect. Training department has been shutdown, simulators are a mess, fleets have been grounded. Some of our August 2013 class trainees have still not been signed off. It's become a fly-by-night operation where trainees can easily get ground up and their careers shortened. When you hit the line, you can look forward to dealing with the inexperienced schedulers and dispatchers looking to get you violated. Operationally speaking, we are a disaster and at our lowest point in our 15 year history. I would wait until a contract is signed and see if things improve. Even then I'm not sure how much better it will get because management seems he11 bent on being at war with its employees. Conditions won't improve until changes take place at the top. Management is doing pretty much whatever they want with work rules and schedules and the accountants are running the company as if it was bankrupt. Sad part is that Allegiant used to be a great company with incredible potential. New management came in, got ambitious and greedy and went after every possible dime they could save. Pilots are a big ticket and bullseye for accountants, especially when they have no experience in the industry.

There are much better alternatives out there. I would wait for an airline that was run by people who know what they are doing instead of a travel company run by a pack of venture capitalists.