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Allegiant Travel Company to Purchase 18 MD-80 Aircraft
Expects to Operate 13 of 18 Aircraft

LAS VEGAS, Jan 04, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Allegiant Travel Company (Nasdaq: ALGT) today announced that on December 30, 2009 it signed an agreement to purchase 18 MD-80 aircraft from Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS). Allegiant will pay for the aircraft with cash.

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Allegiant expects to take delivery of these aircraft during the first three quarters of 2010. The 18 purchased aircraft comprise two groups:


* 13 MD-82/3 aircraft which the Company's airline subsidiary
Allegiant Air expects to place into service by the end of 2011. Along
with a previously-announced separate purchase of two MD-82/3
aircraft (also from SAS) for delivery in the first quarter of 2010,
this transaction satisfies essentially all of Allegiant's currently
expected aircraft growth through the end of 2011. Allegiant expects
to operate at least 52 aircraft by the end of 2010 and as many as 60
aircraft by the end of 2011.

Allegiant expects that the all-in cost of placing each such aircraft
into service, including an allocable portion of the acquisition price
and required maintenance, paint, seats, equipment upgrades and other
necessary modifications will be less than $4 million per aircraft.

* Five MD-87 aircraft which Allegiant will not operate but instead
plans to use as a source of spare engines and other spare parts.

Allegiant Air received approval from the FAA to begin operating Boeing 757-200 aircraft, which it will use first on two Las Vegas routes but eventually plans to operate on service to Hawaii.

The desire to serve Hawaii was the primary reason the Las Vegas-based, low-cost carrier decided to acquire the aircraft type (Aviation Daily, March 9, 2010), but before it can do that it needs to obtain extended-range, twin-engine operational performance standards certification and flag carrier status from the FAA. The airline’s aim is to begin Hawaii service next summer on the aircraft, which are being configured with 217 coach seats.

In the interim, it plans to launch 757 operations on the Las Vegas-McAllen, Texas, and Las Vegas-Rockford, Ill., routes it already serves with its MD-80 aircraft.

Allegiant operates 51 MD-80s and currently owns four 757-200s, but it leased three of them to two European carriers until mid-2012. It also has committed to the purchase of two more, which it expects to acquire in the fourth quarter and begin operating in first quarter 2012. In addition to Hawaii service, Allegiant has talked about the possibility of using the aircraft for Mexico and Las Vegas-South America services, as well as to lower the weekly frequencies in some continental U.S. markets while offering the same number of total seats.

Allegiant to begin Hawaii services with ETOPS
By: Linda Blachly


Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co., parent of Allegiant Air (G4), has been granted FAA ETOPS certification and flag carrier status, clearing the way to begin flights to Hawaii this month (ATW Daily News, July 7, 2011).

"Obtaining ETOPS and flag carrier status not only clears the path for our new service to Hawaii, but also opens up potential international opportunities and will play an important role in our company's future growth,"Allegiant president Andrew Levy said.

G4 said it will begin nonstop Las Vegas-Honolulu service June 29. Through November it will also begin flights to Honolulu from the California cities of Fresno, Monterey, Santa Maria and Stockton; from Bellingham, Wash.; and from Eugene, Ore. Flights from Bellingham to Maui, Hawaii, will also begin November.

G4 will operate Boeing 757-200 aircraft on its Hawaiian routes. The company operates four 757-200 aircraft and owns two more, which are on lease to a European carrier. “These aircraft are expected to be introduced into Allegiant's fleet during the fourth quarter of 2012 and the first quarter of 2013,” the company said.

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.@allegiant's new A320s are configured with 186 seats, seven more than on its used A320s pic.twitter.com/MnUwi1v3Ga

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.@allegiant will be an all-A320 family carrier by year-end. It is down to its last 25 MD-80s #BoydDEN pic.twitter.com/cCTdqi59Jh

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.@allegiant’s departures as percentage of peak day (orange line) compared with Spirit (yellow) and Frontier (green) #BoydDEN pic.twitter.com/hkyhCTJFSH

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