Regional Jets?

Allegiant flies the MD-80 series aircraft, they have around five MD-87 based out of Florida with 130 seats, being their smallest aircraft.

My 2 Cents on Allegiant Air:

They have purchased their aircraft second (or third, fourth...) hand and have spent little money to refurbish the cabins, with the exception of new carpet and slim line seats with no recline or seat back pockets to maximize the number of seats that can be installed. Paying cash for these planes allows them to be more flexible with scheduling not needing to have them in the air 12 hours a day to make a loan/lease payments. I've flown four times on their MD-88 aircraft which came from the now sold Midwest Airlines, which are basically junk. On one trip to Vegas two of the lavs were inop on the outbound and two days later on the return flight on the same plane, what a shock. The sticker on the door identifying them as inop was dated a week before the outbound flight.

I don't buy the priority boarding, because it seems the majority of travelers on this airline buy it, so it's not really priority. I always check one bag and pay my fee in advance because it's more at the airport. The flights are full of leisure travelers and I don't want to hassle with the overhead bins with that crowd. Plus the seats are slim line seats with no recline and limited leg room, so I don't want all of my bags to take up my personal space.

I don't buy a preassigned seat, I've found that rows 1-9 are not available for purchase on most of the routes operated by the the MD-80's due to aircraft seating differences, and have always secured a seat up front during the open boarding while everyone else heads to the back rows 10+. I am seeing that they are now assigning these rows (1-9) on a few aircraft that are in the new 166 seat configuration (they are removing the aft galley and adding more seats, the old aircraft only have 150 seats and have a rear galley) and on the 757 aircraft, so the new seats available might change my mind and I might buy a seat next time. The seats are leather and pre-reclined with headrests, and are comfortable for my small 5'7" height.

Inflight service is buy-on-board with your typical junk food and drinks, bring your credit card as cash is not accepted. They advertise that on long routes from LAS they do sell fresh wraps, but I've flown from a few midwestern cities and found these flights don't qualify. Bring something to eat or come full, a lot of the smaller regional airports don't have the best offerings at the airport.

The staff on-board is mostly friendly, young, and eager to sell you something to increase their incentive pay. The gate staff is subcontracted and could really care less about Allegiant. When they used to fly to Rochester, MN for instance the gate staff were the American Eagle employees.

I would fly them again as I feel that they are safe and a good value for the money, just be careful when booking on their website for the "hidden" additional add on's like the priority boarding, seat assignments, and ground transportation that are automatically added as presumptive sales (you have to remove them if you are not interested.)