Prospective Allegiant pilots need to take heed of all that is being written here. It is 100% accurate.

For a second, think about your worst nightmare management team. If you had to pick management from some of the worst airlines in history with respect to employee relations, who would you select? A President who cut his teeth at an investment firm started by Frank Lorenzo? How about a VP of Ops and a DO from the "old" Northwest? Hey, for the hell of it, throw in a Director of Safety and countless crew schedulers from Mesa. Is your skin crawling yet?

As mentioned above, the inmates are running the asylum here. When the Director of FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis) is put in charge of the new crew scheduling software, you know that it's all over for the pilots. We will NEVER get a new contract without giving these people a "time out". The past 15 years (and especially the last 5) have been a drunken orgy of dirt-cheap planes, employees being paid scraps, a stock price that defies the laws of economics, and an FAA POI who looked the other way on the whole operation. The party's over and it's time to pay the bar tab.