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Allegiant er beviset på at det også er mulig å ha suksess med stikk motsatt strategi av Kjos. Gamle og trste fly, lave priser og USA's mest lønnsomme flyselskap.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...460541592.html

While much of the airline industry retreats from small cities across the U.S., one scrappy carrier has been finding big profits in their wake.

Allegiant Travel Co., ALGT +1.03% a 16-year-old carrier that flies just 64 jets, has achieved the lowest costs, fullest planes and highest margins in the U.S. airline industry by flying where its competitors aren't. Over the past five years, amid bankruptcies, consolidation and soaring fuel prices, U.S. airlines have scaled back domestic air service by 14%, particularly in smaller cities, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Allegiant, meanwhile, increased its departures by 87%, adding service to third- and fourth-tier cities abandoned by other airlines, like Toledo, Ohio, and Stockton, Calif.

"We want to be considered the hometown airline of all the little cities around the country," Allegiant President Andrew Levy said in an interview here, sitting in shorts and a teal polo in the company's glass headquarters in the desert.

Allegiant's strategy has led to profits in 39 of its last 41 quarters.