Allegiant eying Washington-Hawaii flights down the road

July 21st, 2009 at 11:07am Thomas V. Bona

Not entirely new, Allegiant has been talking Hawaii for a while.

But some new potential details out of Allegiant’s smaller focus city of Bellingham, Wash.:

• Hawaii service would be at least a year away, at least out of Bellingham.
• Allegiant is considering, among others, Boeing 757, which hold at least 33 percent more passengers than the MD-80s Allegiant now uses (Those Maddogs can’t really fly the long haul to Hawaii).
• No word on where else Allegiant would consider Hawaii flights from. LAX makes a lot of sense, as do its other California cities. The big question for folks out here in the Midwest is whether they’ll start offering connecting service so we could get in on that. Of course, we’d first need to get LAX service, which Allegiant has so far deemed too far away to be profitable. I wouldn’t hold our breath waiting for connecting service from RFD to Hawaii anytime soon, but it continues to be a good sign that RFD’s largest airline has good growth options.

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