> Is that a lot? Nobody has actually died. Nobody has crashed. "Not killing passengers": that seems a rather primitive metric, which for air transport I think

> Is that a lot? Nobody has actually died. Nobody has crashed. "Not killing passengers": that seems a rather primitive metric, which for air transport I think we left behind in the 1950s when turbine engines brought a magnitude leap in reliability and power. Nowadays the primary differentiators amongst ( FAA and JAA-certified ) airlines are punctuality, service, schedule and price. An airline that consistently and significantly fails on one or more of those, as Allegiant appears to be doing, will not last long in the deregulated aviation market. So in that sense it is valuable journalism to bring their poor reliability to light.