Originally Posted by
rhwbullhead
The one airline I'd be wary of right now is Allegiant because of that 60 minutes story summarized in this article:
https://www.tampabay.com/live-covera...allegiant-air/
Here's a brief segment from 60 minutes overtime:
https://youtu.be/_PR6P3bmcrs
I'm not sure i agree with AA being safer considering how bad the morale is over there currently. F9 was having some issues with slowdowns before but I have to say that the flight attendants at f9 seem to in a better mood than than ones ive flown with in the past on legacy airlines.
A lot of those issues stemmed from their MD-80 fleet (but not all). I'm a private pilot myself and did not fly Allegiant after a different
incident I read about in LAS. This incident, had the failure occurred perhaps 30 seconds later, likely would have resulted in all on board perishing. It's a very similar situation to
Alaska 261. It seems that Allegiant had a very bad stretch over a year or so where constant issues were arising. I haven't flown them since, but I wouldn't hesitate to anymore as the FAA looked into their maintenance practices heavily. Don't let the "new" airbus fleet fool you though as about 12% of their fleet is around 20 years old still despite being all Airbus A319/A320.
I don't think F9, NK, or G4 are unsafe, or that one is safer than the other. Maybe perceptually they are though.