It's almost as if the management has given into some sort of Tiktok/Fox News/Zero Hedge narrative that a huge recession is coming and there is no need to worry about staffing up.

Allegiant management thought they could read the tea leaves during covid and they failed spectacularly. They furloughed into the biggest hiring wave in 2 decades, wasting tens of millions in training costs, alienated the remaining employees, and lost an opportunity to lock in pay rates at 2020 levels when the union would have probably been willing to take a Sun Country style contract. Now they're taking a second shot to whistle through the graveyard, by slow-rolling the contract negotiations while much better airlines are hiring as aggressively as possible.