Good, fair article on Allegiant Air’s recent engine issues

July 2nd, 2009 at 08:49am Thomas V. Bona

Allegiant Air - the biggest airline at RFD - had three incidents in recent months elsewhere involving engine troubles, and while nobody was hurt, the events understandably freaked out passengers.

In an article today, the Las Vegas Review Journal notes that in the age of Twitter and email, “even an airline with a safe and profitable system can have trouble keeping pace with the spread of information, particularly if the information is dramatic, like a first-hand account of a troubled commercial jet flight.”

According to the article, Allegiant isn’t considered to blame for the engine troubles - it’s kind of dumb luck, apparently. It has a lower cancelation rate - for mechanical reasons or otherwise - than the average at the nation’s biggest airports. And the engines it uses have a very low number of accident/incident reports in the past two decades.

Allegiant, for its part, says it’s reviewing how it communicates with passengers in such incidents.

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