In 2022, Allegiant Air placed an order for the Boeing 737 MAX, representing a strategy shift for the airline, which has historically flown Airbus A320-family aircraft. There’s now a major development, as the airline has just taken delivery of its first of these jets.
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Besides the Ryanair group — which has dozens of these 737-8-200 MAX aircraft spread across Ryanair, Malta Air and Buzz — the only other operator of this variant is Indian startup Akasa Air, which took delivery of VT-YAV last July and VT-YBB some days ago.
There simply were not enough new or even used aircraft that were technically similar enough so ALGT would have paid more in operating costs in trying to cobble together a fleet than just buying new aircraft with new generation engines.
Jon Ostrower just noted that part of Airbus' worldwide success with the A320 family in displaying Boeing's 737 was how Airbus handled pricing. Boeing clearly has felt the sting of not being able to sell 737s like Airbus has sole A320 family jets and decided to win back ALGT. Good for Boeing.
You talk about how uncomfortable the 737 is compared to the A320, but you ignore that Frontier and Spirit are cramming 240 and 235 seats, respectively, into their A321neos, which is even closer to the limit (244) of that aircraft than what Allegiant is doing here.
It's odd- you could fit 189 seats in a standard 737-800/MAX8, and yet Allegiant spent more money on the MAX-8-200, which can seat 200, only to add ONE more seat?? That's strange, to me...
"All The Details" is veering dangerously close to TPG's "What You Need to Know..." in virtually every headline. Please don't become them.
That would involve Lucky becoming a total sell-out like Brian "TPG" Kelly...which won't happen.
These Max8-200 aircraft will have the famous "door plug" that blew out on AS in order to accomodate the high density config.
Will they charge extra for seating next to the door plug? Free Flight.
The MAX8-200 does not have door plugs. They have emergency exits because of the density of the plane.
i have flown both the a320 and the 737 numerous times,and find no difference in the comfort level at all.