Allegiant is the US’ ninth-largest home operator, based mostly on the variety of flights, seats on the market, and accessible seat miles (ASMs). Cirium reveals it has about 6.7 million seats on the market between December 2023 and March 2024. Capability has fallen by 2% versus the identical months a 12 months in the past. Three days have seen notable capability cuts: Tuesday (-21%), Monday (-10%), and Wednesday (-7%).

Serves 122 airports this winter

Allegiant’s community in these 4 months includes 122 airports in 41 states. Not surprisingly, Florida is by far probably the most served. About 4.1 million of its 6.7 million seats are to, from, and inside that one state. After all, it’s particularly excessive as a result of it’s winter.

It serves only one airport in 9 states: Georgia (Savannah), Kansas (Wichita), Maine (Bangor), Massachusetts (Boston), New Hampshire (Portsmouth), New Jersey (Newark), Rhode Island (Windfall; the place else?), Utah (Provo), and Wisconsin (Appleton).

Allegiant serves 10 airports in Florida this winter, yet another than in California. Though past the date vary of this text, I beforehand explored its coming return to Orlando Worldwide.

The determine beneath reveals that half of its prime 10 airports are in Florida. Orlando Sanford continues to be primary, helped by a 4% enhance in seats year-on-year (in opposition to -2% for the ULCC’s complete community). The distinction with Las Vegas (-16%), quantity two final 12 months, is clear. Allegiant’s Sanford community has 64 locations, with no adjustments year-on-year. Its development has come from route densification.

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443 routes are served

Allegiant’s December-March community includes 443 routes, based mostly on having not less than 4 departing flights. Maybe surprisingly, its primary market doesn’t contain Florida; it’s between Provo and Phoenix-Mesa. It’s proven on the next map with the remainder of the highest 10.

Cirium signifies that Provo-Mesa, 477 miles (767 km) aside, is almost half Allegiant’s common route size of 901 miles (1,450 km). It started over a decade in the past, in February 2013. This winter, it has 39,618 departing seats (double for each methods), with flights various from 10 to 17 weekly every method, relying on the precise week. It’s, after all, the one operator on the airport pair.

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It carried 1.2 million roundtrip passengers between February 2013 and August 2023, based mostly on US Division of Transportation T-100 information. It crammed a median of 86% of seats, with its highest SLF – considerably meaningless with out context – 96% in June 2023.

Extraordinarily near Provo-Mesa for the highest spot is quantity two, Knoxville-Sanford. A route of an identical size (532 miles, 857 km), it has 38,760 one-way seats within the examined interval.

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First served in February 2007, flights differ from 10 to 16 weekly this winter. It competes not directly with Frontier’s two-to-four-weekly service to Orlando Worldwide.

Come Could 2024, Allegiant will start Orlando Worldwide-Asheville – two-to-four-weekly flights alongside its current Sanford service – having final served that airport pair in 2010/2011. The market is hotting up.

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