Understood. Do you have a sample calendar of what month would look like for a junior first officer? And maybe one for a senior FO? Thanks!

No. The base hasn’t even opened yet. Junior FO will be Reserve with 12 days off a month except for up to 3 months when that can be reduced to 10 days off. Senior will be about 14-17 days off a month, Depending on how much or little you want to work.


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Thank you for the info!

Do not come to Allegiant if you are going to commute.

I don’t know how many threads have to say this.

Typical junior schedules. All O's are 1 day trips or 1 day of reserve grouped together. X's are days off

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Those of you thinking about coming here, loudly for those of you in the back: AT THIS TIME WE ONLY FLY DAY TRIPS! That is unlikely to change within the foreseeable future. Unless you live less than 1 hour from your base, you'll need an apartment or crash pad there on reserve.

DSM will have decent schedules with high block trips for the senior since they are robbing flying from both Florida and the west coast. Long flights to LAS, IWA, LAX, PIE, PGD, SFB. Seniority progression will be fast for those who can bear to stay there.

From the outside that doesn't seem like a 3.5 hour drive is unrealistic as long as I get a place down there and plan on staying in DSM between consecutive days. In that example it would be 5 round trips.

Thank you

You can definitely get an apartment in DSM for when you are in town working. Ironically, I commuted from DSM to both SFB and LAS when I worked at Allegiant. I rented a room out of a buddy’s house in SFB and had my own apartment in LAS.

So yeah, you can definitely do it. All that said, I cannot in good faith recommend this place. I left after 2.5 years. They announced the DSM base 6 months later (it had always been rumored). Everyone texted me trying to say “I messed up” blah blah blah. I literally Lmao when I got the news. 10000% zero .... given.

The QOL of my life, how I’m treated and overall satisfaction cannot even remotely come close to before. It’s just stupid.

While a DSM base woulda been great while I was there, I still would have been actively looking to move on.

Allegiant is great for the guys 10+ years and in the left seat and established. There’s a reason the bottom 300 are a revolving door. There is generally a reason for that, one of which I’m sure you will start to figure out if you end up here.

PM if you have more questions etc.

Not that all of what you posted is wrong but the part that DSM was always rumored is completely false. No one I’ve talked to, and I’m LAS based, had even thought DSM was in the top 10. Maybe that was a east coast projection but out west I never heard anything about DSM

PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS! This airline will suck if you commute and you will find yourself on this forum in the future complaining how non-commuter friendly Allegiant is.

You have been trash talking G4 ever since you left. You went to Spirit, not DAL. I have many friends at Spirit and it is just as much of a sh*t show as the rest. Your complaining is getting old and your friends have all said you regret the decision but it's water under the bridge.

Everyone else: If you want to commute than Spirit/Frontier/JetBlue are your best bets. Do you see the commanility with this thread? You come to Allegiant and commute=unhappy life.