Pilots Find Plenty to Hate in Allegiant's Low-Cost Business Model
A rare strike is blocked at the last minute—the last one was in 2010 at no-frills carrier Spirit
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Pilots at the lowest of the low-cost U.S. airlines are fuming over a two-year contract struggle with Allegiant Travel they say exposes abuses of the no-frills model, including overworked, underpaid staff and lax maintenance practices.
A rare pilots strike the union had called for early today fizzled when Allegiant, based in Las Vegas, won a temporary restraining order. The airline had filed a lawsuit against the pilots' union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, on March 30 seeking the restraining order and asking that its pilots be barred from staging a “sick-out, slow-down, work-to-rule campaign” or any other actions that could foul up Allegiant’s operations.