![]() ![]() Allegiant only made itself look guiltier through its actions, playing right into the flimsy 60 Minutes narrative. And the memos with which the airline followed up were too little too late. As another industry communications pro said to me, if 60 Minutes calls, you don’t say no. If you have scheduling conflicts, you move things around. Then it failed to make its CEO available to go on camera. ![]() Even if it wasn’t the worst in the industry, as you’ll see below, it was certainly wise to look more closely at the airline back then.Īllegiant also failed to do itself any favors in the way it handled 60 Minutes. There was a time, particularly in 20, where Allegiant saw its incident numbers spike. Everyone is lucky the pilots aborted that takeoff. That should never have happened, and it resulted in a near-disaster. There are nagging questions, including extraordinarily severe incidents like the airplane that had a missing cotter pin. If you asked most people in the airline industry, they had likely heard the narrative at some point. There were the blockbuster reports from the Tampa Bay Times and Washington Post, but there had also been plenty of local and industry coverage surrounding individual events. The idea that Allegiant was an unsafe airline was nothing new. This isn’t to say that Allegiant hasn’t deserved closer scrutiny. After digging in, I realized that was just the most prominent of many problems in the report. Not disclosing that is downright irresponsible, and it cast a shadow on everything else. But what 60 Minutes failed to disclose is that he’s an expert witness being paid to testify against Allegiant in a case that’s just about to begin, a case that was referenced in the piece itself. If you watched the piece, you know that John Goglia was one of the primary experts used to prove that Allegiant is unsafe. Instead we were treated to a really terrible piece of journalism. When word came down that 60 Minutes would be shining a spotlight on Allegiant’s safety record a couple weeks back, I assumed I knew what it was about I was just curious if we’d learn anything new. ![]()
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