Originally Posted by
9easy
In this case, there are plenty of old busted 737's available on the used market. Allegiant could have stolen a 737-800 OpSpec (like they allegedly did with the airbus) and been running used 737's for years already. Maury thought he got pandemic pricing, but in actuality he walked into one of the saddest corporate shiitshows in American history.
Not allegedly. They literally stole the NWA SOPA/SMAC and changed the names. When I went from the 80 to the bus in 2015 the manuals still had drawings of bowling shoe airplanes on the profiles.