crxpilot

I predict a merge with Dave & Busters by next year. Hopefully it will be a fair seniority list integration and not a staple. You heard it here first!

dutch rudder

I share everyone’s trepidations. When I first saw this announcement, I started to imagine low cost carnivals... AllegiLand, where fun is our deal! Generally speaking, this thread contains a singular tone, one of frustrated disbelief. So I want to play devil’s advocate and go a different direction.

What if this actually works? A revenue stream that is more resistant (or less susceptible) during the next economic downturn. Also, diverse revenue streams would make it possible to have lower base fairs than our competition, maybe considerably lower, allowing us to always have the advantage.

Plus, we already have many subsidiaries like Teesnap LLC and others. Subsidiaries are nothing new. After all, Allegiant Air is a subsidiary of Allegiant Travel. Instead of owning a paper company or oil refinery, we will own a company that rents VR goggles and sells pizza. After a brief search, it appears every airline has several subsidiaries… I know, they are typically airline-related subsidiaries. But what if that’s the whole point, to do it differently?

Moreover, if they had chosen to build G4CE in Vegas or next to Sunseeker resort, would it feel as weird? I personally don’t think so.

I take comfort in the fact that if this little project fails, we will find out quickly and the company won’t be in too deep.

sjflyer

Why concentrate on expanding the business that generates 100 of millions of dollars when we can make thousands of dollars with go karts

We should open a chick fill a while we are at it.

badflaps

If I remember correctly they have a wide body simulator game, may even save money on training and requal.

LoFly

That is exactly what they're trying to do here. We need more destinations in order to expand our coverage.
Come on guys let's complain about stuff worth compl... oh wait, we're pilots. Never mind, carry on.

j3cub

Why dont you email Maury and ask him? He's usually very prompt with responses.

CAirBear

I mean he did send me personal email wishing me a Happy Birthday once - on the wrong day...

ecam

Does anyone else wonder if Maury is really calling the shots anymore?

akulahunter

Although I'm personally a little skeptical on whether we should or shouldn't be doing these things (sunseeker, g4ce, etc), I'm willing to wait and see. I'm sure that the company thinks it can make money doing this, let's see how it goes before we assume it's a spectacular failure. Tons of corporations have their fingers in a lot of different pies and it works out from a diversification standpoint. We'll know by the end of next year how a lot of these things are going to go...

For those who are arguing that we should be buying planes instead of doing g4ce etc... I think it's an invalid argument. There have to be planes available to buy in order to buy them. From the rumors I have heard we have been outbid more than once on planes. It's not like they aren't trying (at least rumor wise).

full of luv

And if they didn't, they are surely not looking for a $69 fare to said destinations, sans club to imbibe in as they await their first class seat.

Think more like "conspicuous consumption" crowd.