Allegiant Air

Just like Frontier and Spirit

Their primary business model is to provide affordable direct routes from smaller regional airports to popular destinations like Vegas or Orlando.

They're great because a person can fly direct and cheap from places like Shreveport or Fayetteville without a connecting flight through a major hub like DFW, Houston, or ATL.

They fly older planes, charge for everything, and often only have 1 flight/day without any other flights or planes available if a problem occurs with your plane.

Delays are common. The good thing is it's a direct flight, so a 45 minute delay won't cause you to miss a connecting flight.

Everything is a la carte, your ticket gets you a seat on the plane. Bags,etc are additional. Pay those fees online before your flight. It is more expensive at the airport.

Not all their planes are older but they only fly each route 2-3x a week. As was mentioned earlier you may have delays but it's a nonstop so that shouldn't be an issue.

Seats are going to be crammed. Not a lot of legroom

Absolute worst experience I ever had. Flight was delayed for over 8 hours before finally being cancelled at midnight. Waited at the ticket desk for over 45 minutes for someone to show up, couldn't answer if they could refund my ticket so told me to call customer service. That took over an hour before being taken off of hold. Wouldn't refund my tickets but gave me a $100 voucher for future tickets, but no hotel or anything for the night (luckily it was my flight out of MSY so I had a place to stay). The worst part was they knew well before cancelling the flight that the pilots had flown their max time for the day and wouldn't be able to fly out that night, if they would have made it known instead of constantly reassuring us the flight would be leaving it wouldn't have been so bad, and I could have gotten another flight that night.

We went to Vegas from Shreveport years ago in order to do some hiking in Utah.

It was like the Wal Mart of airlines. Mostly trashy people.

If they could make planes that ran on pain and suffering, Allegiant would be set.

I'd compare it to staying at a Motel 6. You got a bed to sleep in, but you kind of wish you would've just paid the extra money for the Hampton Inn.

Their flights are very cheap. I was thinking of taking one to Cleveland from MSY to bring the kids to Cedar point and Niagara Falls.

That should be a great time. Only drawback is that they only fly that route on Mon and Friday

That's what I plan to do.

Been to Vegas a few times, always flown Allegiant out of Shreveport, never had any issues.

Flew RT from MSY to Charlotte (Concord). Cheap, easy, no issues. That Concord airport was small and super-efficient too.