Allegiant provides 12 new routes, 1 new airport

Allegiant is filling in its route map, including 12 new routes and one new airport. The additions — which all begin in Could 2024 — will beef up the service’s presence at 22 airports from Los Angeles to Newark.

However maybe essentially the most notable new route is available in Florida, with an airport that expands Allegiant’s attain there by a mere 30 miles. That is the place Allegiant is including its latest airport: Orlando Worldwide Airport (MCO).

Whereas flights from MCO are not any shock for an ultra-low-cost service like Allegiant, the addition of MCO comes even though the service already operates a bustling base simply 30 miles away at Orlando’s secondary airport: Orlando Sanford Worldwide Airport (SFB).

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Allegiant flies from SFB to greater than 70 cities on both a seasonal or year-round foundation, however — starting in Could — that can be complemented by three new routes from MCO.

MCO is by far the busier of the 2, and the airport most passengers use on their technique to Disney World and Central Florida’s different theme parks and vacationer points of interest. MCO sits a lot nearer to most of these points of interest than SFB, the place Allegiant is certainly one of simply two carriers serving that airport. (Canadian discounter Aptitude Airways is the opposite.)

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Elsewhere, different fascinating additions in Allegiant’s newest replace embrace:

• A brand new cross-country flight that can give Chattanooga, Tennessee, a nonstop flight to Las Vegas.
• The Oregon metropolis of Eugene will get its longest nonstop flight when Allegiant begins nonstop service to Austin — a route that can overtake American’s path to Dallas Fort Price Worldwide Airport (DFW) by 88 miles.
• Montana’s largest metropolis will get nonstop service to Los Angeles, which begins Could 16 when Allegiant provides the route from Billings.

“The announcement of latest service is a celebration of the success we have had in these markets,” Drew Wells, Allegiant’s senior vice chairman of income and planning and chief income officer, stated in a assertion. “Additionally, the addition of a brand new station makes us a extra dynamic airline. We’re dedicated to opening the door to accessible journey in as many markets as potential and know our clients recognize the low-cost, nonstop choices supplied by Allegiant.”

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A full schedule of Allegiant’s new routes is under. As with practically all of Allegiant’s routes, most function solely two or three days every week. The corporate is providing introductory fares on all the new routes. They vary from $49 to $79 one-way, relying on the route. Vacationers ought to know that Allegiant is understood for low base fares however prices further for practically every thing else past boarding the airplane.

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• Eugene, Oregon: Flights start Could 31, introductory fares from $79 every method.

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