Originally Posted by
tom11011
Well I'll just say that it would not surprise me at all for the company to claim no growth like they are doing for 2018 then all of the sudden announce more airplanes and cities. It does happen. The company is opportunistic as far as trying to find 10-20 year old A320s when they become available.
But for now, in 2018, with the retirement of the MD80, we will actually shrink from 89 aircraft to 82 aircraft. With the consolidation of the fleet type, the pilot count per aircraft will shrink from 9.8 to 7.6 in 2020. The only projected growth is 6 more airplanes in 2019 and another 6 in 2020. That puts our fleet count at 94 in 2020, not 110. There are currently 908 pilots on our seniority list including management pilots and instructors.
This is outdated info, the investor report the company issued last week shows 100 airframes by 2019 and 110 airframes by 2020. It's on the investor relations section of allegiant.com. Next year will be stagnant but 2019 will see huge (relative to the size of our company) growth, and 2020 should be good too, at 10% growth.