Allegiant Air
03-06-2016, 07:06 AM
#1912
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Originally Posted by supersix-4
What's the deal with the bullets? Why do they pop off?
03-06-2016, 08:33 AM
#1913
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Originally Posted by supersix-4
What's the deal with the bullets? Why do they pop off?
You got to do good maintenance on a plane that old. And it obviously isn't happening.
03-06-2016, 12:01 PM
#1914
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Originally Posted by dawgdriver
Maybe it's because Allegiant doesn't make enough money to avoid the cheap contract maintenance they use.
As an American mechanic told me once when I picked up a plane from them: When an American 80 goes into a heavy check, they get the Cadillac plan. When an Allegiant 80 went in to a heavy check, it got the Yugo plan.
But even doing things on the cheap, American did a good a job. I never worried about the plan not being right picking it up there like I did picking one up from AAR.
03-06-2016, 12:11 PM
#1915
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Does Allegiant still frequently TDY west coasters to Florida? If so I'd assume they're picking up the bill for any hotel rooms needed? I heard wrong, but is training (ground and sim) 6 or 16 weeks currently? During my phone screen I heard over the phone that they're growing IWA and they also plan on possibly opening a mid continent base.
03-06-2016, 12:18 PM
#1916
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Originally Posted by eagleatr
Actually, they DO make enough money to do things correctly. American used to do the heavy checks on all the 80's, but they didn't want to continue paying for that and switched to AAR, or whoever does it now.
As an American mechanic told me once when I picked up a plane from them: When an American 80 goes into a heavy check, they get the Cadillac plan. When an Allegiant 80 went in to a heavy check, it got the Yugo plan.
But even doing things on the cheap, American did a good a job. I never worried about the plan not being right picking it up there like I did picking one up from AAR.
As an American mechanic told me once when I picked up a plane from them: When an American 80 goes into a heavy check, they get the Cadillac plan. When an Allegiant 80 went in to a heavy check, it got the Yugo plan.
But even doing things on the cheap, American did a good a job. I never worried about the plan not being right picking it up there like I did picking one up from AAR.
I was being facetious
03-06-2016, 01:21 PM
#1917
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Originally Posted by dawgdriver
Yes. Allegiant is WILDLY profitable. If I recall correctly, they claimed to be the single most profitable airline (travel company?) in the world last year. Ergo the tragedy.
I was being facetious
I was being facetious
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