It has not been the simplest yr to be a low-cost airline. In September, Spirit Airways has filed for chapter for the second time in 9 months, whereas Scandinavian carriers Play and Braathens shut down operations fully and left 1000’s of vacationers stranded throughout totally different airports in Europe.
Though not in chapter, Houston-based low-cost provider Avelo has spent the final yr making important cuts to its community by shutting down bases at Hollywood Burbank Airport (BUR) and Charles M. Schulz Airport (STS) in California and Harry Reid Worldwide Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas.
A number of weeks later, the provider quietly minimize routes to airports in Connecticut and Maine, and later confirmed extra cuts to routes from North Carolina and Florida in 2026.
“Allegiant proved there was demand for other cities in that part of the country”
One other airline to make a sequence of serious route cuts is the Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air.
Launched in 1997 with the acquainted low-cost mannequin of flying from and into airports too small for mainstream airways, Allegiant not too long ago confirmed that it was leaving LAX and slicing its final flights into Los Angeles from Cincinnati and Bellingham over what it labeled as “long-term strategic goals” and “flexible business value.”
This week, airport officers at Norfolk Worldwide Airport (ORF) in Virginia confirmed that routes Allegiant quietly scrapped in August characterize a everlasting exit from the market and won’t return within the coming season.
Allegiant has been flying into the southeastern metropolis since 2017 and supplied vacationers direct entry to smaller Florida locations equivalent to Jacksonville.
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It has additionally supplied seasonal flights to Boston and Cincinnati at totally different occasions of yr; now these additionally is not going to return.
“ORF is thankful for the partnership with Allegiant,” airport spokesperson Chris Jones mentioned in a press release to native outlet WAVY-TV.
“Before it arrived, Florida service was really limited to the big three destinations — Orlando, Miami, and Tampa. Allegiant proved there was demand for other cities in that part of the country, though a byproduct of its success was others trying to do the same.”
Allegiant Air flies to many secondary markets and states underserved by mainstream airways.
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With no extra Allegiant flights out of Norfolk, listed here are different choices
With carriers equivalent to Breeze Airways and Spirit additionally increasing service to most of the identical Florida locations, it turned tough for Allegiant to maintain routes with decrease visitors worthwhile.
It continues to run flights into three different airports in Virginia: Richmond Worldwide (RIC) and Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional (ROA) within the south and Dulles Worldwide (IAD) within the northern Washington space.
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Low-cost airways that can proceed to fly into Norfolk embody Frontier, Breeze, Southwest, Frontier, and Spirit, whereas anybody who booked flights past August ought to have already got been contacted about refund choices.
On it web site, Allegiant states that vacationers whose flights have been “delayed or cancelled for a reason within Allegiant’s control” can request a “full refund, including any taxes and ancillary fees,” ought to they not wish to be rebooked on another route with Allegiant or a associate.
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