XNA Airport announced this morning that it has completed a deal with Allegiant Air that makes the airline the first discount carrier to the area.
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport has been looking for a discount carrier for the airport for some time. Allegiant Airlines is a subsidiary of Allegiant Travel Co., a Las Vegas-based corporation. The airline promotes itself as the “Official Airline for Sunshine”, with flights to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Ft Lauderdale, Orlando, and Tampa. The company also has plans to set up a Los Angeles base by May 1st.
Allegiant will offer flights from XNA to LAX twice a week beginning May 22nd. The airline will offer an introductory special of $99 each way that will eventually increase to $119 each way. Allegiant will also fill the void left by American Airlines. Beginning April 7th, the airport will lose a daily flight from LAX, currently served by American.
Allegiant Air is one of the few airlines that has increased in number of passengers. XNA is measuring its passenger statistics carefully. The airport has stopped flights to Raleigh-Durham, Washington D.C., Miami and Salt Lake City due to empty flights, but has increased the frequency of other flights. New passenger statistics will be announced by XNA next week……
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