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Originally Posted by Click
I'm going to Vegas in a few weeks and was looking into Allegiant Air cause some of you have said it's great.
But reading some reviews online, lots of people were talking about their old planes and a safety issue.
For all those who have flown with Allegiant, could you please give me your iexperience with the airline. As well if you felt dangerous while take off, in air, landing?
Because of the reviews i read about the old planes, I'm currently leaning towards AC but they don't have direct flights which will take me forever to get to Vegas.
Thanks in advance!
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They fly MD-80's exclusively. As to whether they are inherently unsafer than other types of planes, I don't really think so. Every time I've flown them, they've seemed OK. I didn't feel unsafe at any time. Yes the planes are older (they don't make MD-80's anymore) but then that's how they can have cheaper flights - by buying older planes for cheaper...new planes cost big bucks, and I don't think they could be this competitive if they had higher overhead costs.
If you check the news, there have been a couple of issues in the past with MD-80's but I'm sure the FAA has had all these addressed. I would expect these planes go through the same rigorous checks as any other plane that flies in the US.
I wouldn't have any problem flying them again. I didn't feel unsafe flying them at any time.