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Oakland International Airport and Allegiant Travel Company together look forward to spring due to two recent announcements. Allegiant launched new nonstop service to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in mid-January, and plans to add seven new nonstop destinations and open a base at OAK on April 26, 2012.
Allegiant, part of the highly profitable Allegiant Travel Company known for exceptional travel deals, will add the new nonstop cities to its existing three for a total of 10 markets in Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington served from OAK this spring.
The airline’s expansion is significant for both OAK and the San Francisco Bay Area. At OAK, Allegiant will create jobs for 60 people base two 166-seat MD-80 aircraft and carry thousands of tourists to and from the Bay Area each week.
Allegiant Travel Company is focused on linking travelers in small cities to world-class leisure destinations like the San Francisco Bay Area which is consistently ranked as one the world’s favorite leisure destinations. They also offer hotel rooms, rental cars, and attraction tickets through allegiant.com. The economic impact for the seven new flights is estimated at between $75 million and $100 million in the first year of operation.
“The San Francisco Bay Area is a wonderful addition to our vacation destination offerings,” said Andrew Levy, Allegiant Travel Company president. “Oakland International Airport provides our customers convenient access to all the Bay Area has to offer. We are happy to partner with an airport that operates in a low-cost, efficient manner which allows us to pass the savings on to our customer.”
In addition to Bellingham, Washington Eugene, Oregon and Phoenix-Mesa, Allegiant’s seven new cities served from OAK are:
In Montana – Billings, Bozeman, Kalispell and Missoula
In Oregon – Medford and Redmond and
In Idaho – Idaho Falls.
The airline’s prime target market is inbound Bay Area tourists who stay on average 3.2 days. Allegiant moved to OAK from SFO in 2009, citing OAK’s lower operating costs, accessibility to downtown San Francisco, and on-time reliability.
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