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Allegiant Completes Merger with Sun Country

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Allegiant Air announced the completion of its merger with Sun Country Airlines, with a combined fleet of 195 aircraft serving 175 cities and more than 650 routes. The growth of the new Allegiant should provide some relief for budget travelers…

Allegiant Acquires Sun Country

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Allegiant and Sun Country announced a transaction through which Allegiant will acquire Sun Country Airlines at a value of $1.1 billion, plus the absorption of $400 million in debt for a total of $1.5 billion. Sun Country Shareholders will receive…

US airline industry fleet concentration

As of the 2Q18, here is where we stood with the US airline industry in-service fleet. The top four airlines accounted for 79% of the fleet.  That is concentrated and clearly points to industry followers needing to be au fait…

Are aging fleets a problem?

With another two stories today about in-flight component failures (Southwest, Sichuan), we are being reminded that airplanes are vulnerable.  There is nothing quite like an airline/airplane scary story to catch people’s attention. The industry safety statistics are too good to…