Allegiant's John Pepper on stage at Routes Americas 2025.
U.S. ULCC Allegiant has built a growth schedule for 2025 that factors in the arrival of additional Boeing 737-8s, and it believes the OEM will be able to deliver on that schedule.
Allegiant vice president for corporate development and government affairs, John Pepper, speaking at Routes Americas 2025 in Nassau, Bahamas, said this would be a year of a return to the kind of annual growth that the leisure airline was seeing before the COVID pandemic. The plan is to achieve a 17% year-on-year growth in available seat miles (ASM). The airline, which was founded in 1997, served 17 million passengers last year and is now operating more than 550 routes to 124 cities in 41 U.S. states.
“We are solely designed to take leisure passengers from their small and midsize cities to the places where they want to go on vacation,” Pepper said.
This year, Allegiant plans to launch 44 new routes and add three new cities to its schedule. It will also integrate more MAXs into its fleet. Four were delivered last year, and the plan is to take delivery of nine more in 2025 for a total of 13 by year-end. Allegiant’s CFM Leap-powered 737-8s are configured with 190 seats, giving the airline an additional 10 seats per aircraft versus the older Airbus A320s they are replacing. This includes 21 of the new Allegiant Extra seats at the front of the aircraft. These offer more legroom, priority boarding, a complimentary snack and dedicated overhead bins. Pepper said the product is selling well.
With the additional MAXs, Allegiant is confident of receiving sufficient aircraft to support its growth plan at least through the 2025 U.S. spring break vacation period, Pepper said.
“Beyond that, we are looking at nine airplanes and we believe we have built a schedule that we expect Boeing will be able to deliver,” Pepper said.
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