Originally Posted by Stok1

Also consider Allegiant maintenance is like everything else cheap and subpar profits first safety, sometimes a close second. Reference Allegiant Air flt#436, 8/17/15 LAS to PIA; Our stellar understaffed maintenance department in LAS subcontracted a maintenance inspection; they forgot to ensure a cotter pin was installed properly in the tail assembly of that aircraft, oops.

An operational dispatch department that is still in the part 135 world. Reference our current and soon to be fired, oops I mean resignated VP of ops Bingo-baden. Captain-Bingo alongside our director of safety were dispatched to a closed airport, our now infamous Fargo ND flight. Which disrupted a blue angels rehearsal due to their erroneous/false emergency declaration. Notams, dispatch; Pilots missed it.

So, when you get that fast upgrade, you are playing goalie catching all department failures and criminality, in the end you get hanged. Allegiant maintenance skillfully conned an airbus crew into ferrying with pax on board having one of the hydraulic systems mel’d. Reference our PIE captain who was terminated for emergency evacuating his airplane for reported smoke emanating from his plane. No support, guilty until proven innocent for all incidents inquiry. Allegiant management likes to call these interrogations “Safety Debriefings”. Very little recourse for any discipline; no contract, no arbitration.