Originally Posted By: CincyDavid
So far, every Mad Dog I've flown has been with DL, G4 flights have all been newer Airbus variants A319s and A320s. Allegiant is quickly phasing out the Mad Dogs.
I have no qualms about flying Allegiant, but I do prefer the Delta way of doing things...priority boarding, free checked bag, etc. with my SkyMiles AMEX card, so I tend to fly Delta more often than not.
Valujet 592 would be a better Allegiant comparison than Air Florida 90.
Hearing that name still makes me cringe. As a kid, my grandmother's cheap husband always booked us flights on Valujet, and later AirTran (not be be dissuaded by the fact that this was the same company that slaughtered 100 people). I was big aviation buff as a kid, and I remember that their planes looked like old hooptys even to me. They were definitely 737 planes with the old cigar engines.
All I remember hearing for months was "Valujet this" "Sabretech that". And the fact that literally not one hair was ever found of more than half the people that died.
All that because some jackholes thought it would be a great idea to load up a plane with what essentially were oxygen incendiary grenades.