Allegiant flights evacuated when cabin filled with smoke

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Well, with that previous emergency, Allegient fired the crew for evacuating. This time, the crew didn't evacuate. The FAA called it an emergency though- might they go after the crew for not evacuating more expeditiously?
 
Is Allegiant the only airline operating MD-80s? I think AA still operates a few without the terrible track record. If I worked in MX there I'd be looking to jump ASAP. Hard to believe it's just a run of bad luck with old airplanes, they can be cantankerous and make you want to pull hair out sometimes, but you don't release an airplane back to service if it's not right. Doing the minimum amount of troubleshooting that can look on paper as if something has been done without identifying the issue seems like a solid business plan. Pilot says it's broke, lazy maintenance says "Nope, I checked it, good to go". Release it and Bob's your uncle, go home and never fix anything. There is always going to be a little tension between Ops and MX, but it seems Allegiant has completely lost the balance between safety and profit.
 
knot4u said:
Is Allegiant the only airline operating MD-80s? I think AA still operates a few without the terrible track record. If I worked in MX there I'd be looking to jump ASAP. Hard to believe it's just a run of bad luck with old airplanes, they can be cantankerous and make you want to pull hair out sometimes, but you don't release an airplane back to service if it's not right. Doing the minimum amount of troubleshooting that can look on paper as if something has been done without identifying the issue seems like a solid business plan. Pilot says it's broke, lazy maintenance says "Nope, I checked it, good to go". Release it and Bob's your uncle, go home and never fix anything. There is always going to be a little tension between Ops and MX, but it seems Allegiant has completely lost the balance between safety and profit.
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I think at it's strongest, the AA MD-80 fleet was over 400 jets. With decades of working on hundreds of MD-80s and nearing one century of doing aircraft maintenance, it's hard to compare AA to Allegiant. But I do have to think that Allegiant flies the MD-80s long past the point that AA would have parked them in the desert, so that is likely part of the problem. The DC-3s flying in South America blow engines and have issues all the time too, there is only so much you can do with a plane that hasn't had a lot of parts produced in decades and a frame that has pressurized tens of thousands of times.
 
Kingairer said:
http://www.airfleets.net/flottecie/American Airlines.htm has the answers yall seek. Make sure to click the planes SN bc the delivery date shows the date the airplane was transferred over to the airline listed, not first flight. A lot of AAs TWA S80s aren't all that old...about 1999.
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Welp, there goes my day of productivity. I can look at this stuff all day. The Allegiant Airbus fleet age is a lot older than I thought and they have flown for multiple companies. 1997 for a few of them. That's like UAL A320 old ;)
 
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SeanD said:
Welp, there goes my day of productivity. I can look at this stuff all day. The Allegiant Airbus fleet age is a lot older than I thought and they have flown for multiple companies. 1997 for a few of them. That's like UAL A320 old ;)
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Whats impressive is if you think about how ahead of its time the Airbus was. Put a 1989 Airbus cockpit up beside a 1989 S80...wow.
 
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