Allegiant and Sun Country to merge...

[Hondo Calrissian]

I don't normally check my company email during my days off but this is now public..

Sun Country folks, thought?

Allegiant and Sun Country Airlines to Combine, Creating a Leading, More Competitive Leisure-Focused U.S. Airline

Brings Together Airlines with Similar Flexible Capacity Models Serving 22 Million Annual Customers, Nearly 175 Cities, With More Than 650 Routes, and 195...

www.prnewswire.com

 

[manniax]

It does kind of make sense, but I had no idea this one was coming. Glad both offices are unionized. I guess NOC employees in MSP will have to make the move to LAS, or find new jobs.

 

[Hondo Calrissian]

Well, the plus size of living in LAS is that it doesn't snow and can wear shots in January.

 

[Dxwiz]

Well, the plus size of living in LAS is that it doesn't snow and can wear shots in January.

And disintegrate in the summer

 

[retrodx]

I’m willing to trade the desert for MSP. Will it be split control ops or just move everything to Minnesota?

 

[Hondo Calrissian]

I’m willing to trade the desert for MSP. Will it be split control ops or just move everything to Minnesota?

The press release says HQ will stay in LAS

 

[Hondo Calrissian]

And disintegrate in the summer

I grew up here and I am still in tact!

 

[DessertDx]

Hopefully they keep the NOC/OCC in Minne. I would hate to see another airline pull out of that area.

 

[TAF_Master]

The press release says HQ will stay in LAS

Yea 67/33 ownership in favor of Allegiant. Would be shocked if anything stayed in MSP other than the front line crew base/station ops.

 

[TAF_Master]

I’m willing to trade the desert for MSP. Will it be split control ops or just move everything to Minnesota?

I don't know of any merger that proposed split control. The HA/AS one has an extended period of time for the transition, but the end game is everyone moving to SEA. The blocked B6/NK merger only guaranteed a "support center" of some sort in FLL and no net loss of jobs from the state, it did not guarantee that dispatch specifically would be allowed to remain in FLL and operate a split NOC.

 

[VTOLa320]

Hopefully they keep the NOC/OCC in Minne. I would hate to see another airline pull out of that area.

Not a chance lol.

 

[manniax]

Not a chance lol.

Yeah, it's the negative side of dispatching...you have to move for the job (or find a new job) when mergers happen. And a lot of them have happened over the last 20 years...

 

[Hondo Calrissian]

Yea 67/33 ownership in favor of Allegiant. Would be shocked if anything stayed in MSP other than the front line crew base/station ops.

According to the release, HQ in LAS with MSP being a base.

 

[rogerthatbravo]

Does that mean dispatch pay goes up by chance for the Allegiant dispatchers(eventually )? I wonder what the other LCC is gonna do

 

[TAF_Master]

Yeah, it's the negative side of dispatching...you have to move for the job (or find a new job) when mergers happen. And a lot of them have happened over the last 20 years...

Yea moving is a negative for sure, but at least the job is *usually* guaranteed so long as you do so. A lot of other corporate mergers simply involve "redundancies" and layoffs....