Allegiant Air buying 50 new Boeing planes

Allegiant Air is buying dozens of Boeing jets arsenic it expands beyond its all-Airbus fleet and past of purchasing utilized planes.

The airline’s parent, Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co., announced a woody Wednesday with aerospace elephantine The Boeing Co. to bargain 50 caller 737 MAX aircraft, with options to acquisition 50 more.

Allegiant said it would instrumentality transportation of an archetypal radical of planes adjacent year. The remaining deliveries are scheduled passim 2024 and 2025.

Terms were not disclosed.

Allegiant is scheduled to clasp an capitalist telephone Thursday to sermon the transaction, which marks Boeing’s archetypal with an American ultra-low-cost carrier.

“Our attack to fleet has ever been opportunistic, and this breathtaking transaction with Boeing is nary exception,” Allegiant Chairman and CEO Maurice “Maury” Gallagher said successful a quality release.

Gallagher added that portion the “heart of our strategy continues to halfway connected antecedently owned aircraft, the infusion of up to 100 direct-from-the-manufacturer 737s volition bring galore benefits for the aboriginal — including flexibility for capableness maturation and craft retirements, important biology benefits, and modern configuration and compartment features our customers volition appreciate.”

The caller planes volition “provide much limb country and marque storing and retrieving carry-on luggage easier for passengers,” Allegiant said, noting the craft besides volition pain astir 20 percent little substance than older Airbus A320s and connection accrued seating capacity.

Allegiant, whose firm office are connected Town Center Drive adjacent Summerlin Parkway, is known for flying from small, underserved cities to warm-weather abrogation spots, usually without contention connected its routes.

It presently operates 108 Airbus jets, comprising a premix of A319s and A320s, and volition “continue sourcing A320s successful the utilized market,” the institution said Wednesday.

Before it transitioned to an all-Airbus fleet successful caller years, Allegiant mostly flew older, hand-me-down McDonnell Douglas MD-80s.

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