{"id":107073,"date":"2024-06-24T21:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/24\/allegiant-to-end-crew-base-in-austin-the-points-guy\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T21:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T21:00:33","slug":"allegiant-to-end-crew-base-in-austin-the-points-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/24\/allegiant-to-end-crew-base-in-austin-the-points-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegiant to end crew base in Austin – The Points Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Low-cost airline Allegiant Air<\/a> is pulling back from a Texas airport that’s seen rapid growth over the last decade.<\/p>\n

The Las Vegas-based ultralow-cost carrier will end its aircraft and crew base operations at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) effective Jan. 7, 2025, a spokesperson confirmed Monday.<\/p>\n

Allegiant will still serve the airport, which it says will remain a key part of its network. However, the airline will no longer base crew and aircraft in Austin, citing “circumstances outside of our control.”<\/p>\n

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South Terminal closure planned<\/h2>\n

At issue, Allegiant tells TPG, is constrained gate space amid renovation plans in the works in Austin.<\/p>\n

Allegiant is based out of Austin’s South Terminal, a small satellite concourse that’s a short drive from the airport’s primary terminal.<\/p>\n

Amid Austin’s fast growth in recent years, the airport has plans to eventually close the South Terminal to allow for construction of a midfield concourse and new taxiways on the airfield. That’s slated to happen no later than 2026.<\/p>\n

As part of the closure of the smaller terminal, which opened in 2017, Allegiant will have to relocate to the airport’s main terminal \u2014 which it is <\/em>planning to do; the airline plans to continue serving the airport with flights.<\/p>\n

However, that move comes with a caveat, the airline told TPG Monday.<\/p>\n

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“Unfortunately, the gate space we have been offered will not allow us to sustain our base at AUS,” an Allegiant spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Austin has been an Allegiant base since 2021, when the carrier announced plans to invest $75 million there, with plans to employ at least 89 staff and base three Airbus A320 jets.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear so far what, if any, Allegiant routes might be affected once it ceases its base operation in Austin come January 2025.<\/p>\n

This month, the carrier’s Austin route map includes 18 nonstop destinations around the country, according to the below map from aviation analytics firm Cirium.<\/p>\n

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