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Allegiant is a Las Vegas-headquartered ultra-low-cost leisure carrier with roughly 22 crew bases, most of them mid-size cities, and a business model built on out-and-back flying to leisure destinations. The employee value proposition is quality of life: verbatim from the careers page, "most of our trips are return home every night." Understand that model cold before you interview — it is what makes Allegiant genuinely different from other ULCCs, and it is what interviewers expect you to have researched. (Note the word "most": do not oversell home-every-night as a guarantee, because Allegiant itself doesn't.)
The big corporate story: Allegiant announced its acquisition of Sun Country on January 11, 2026 (roughly $1.5 billion including debt) and completed it on May 13, 2026. As of August 2026 the two airlines still operate independently on separate certificates, and post-merger careers messaging says both carriers "continue to operate independently today." The merger FAQ frames the deal as growth-designed with no reductions to front-line positions expected. You probably won't be asked about it — but don't be blindsided that Sun Country is now part of the company.
Hiring-window status (as of August 2026): OPEN — base-specific and continuous. Allegiant does not run a single annual national wave; postings appear per base, and aggregators showed hundreds of active FA listings in mid-2026, with St. Petersburg/Clearwater (PIE) among the highest-volume locations. The official careers page does not publish a live "bases now hiring" list, so which domiciles are open changes posting-by-posting — check allegiantair.jobs directly. The workgroup is small (~1,700 FAs under the TWU contract), so individual base postings can fill fast.
Baseline requirements, verbatim from allegiantair.jobs (checked August 2026): "at least 21 years of age," "High School diploma or equivalent," and "A minimum of one (1) year of direct customer service work experience is preferred" — preferred, not required. A valid passport and clean background check are cited across postings; confirm passport-validity specifics against the live posting, because no verbatim validity-duration language is published. You must be "available to train in Las Vegas for a minimum of 4.5 weeks."
And the industry-wide caution that applies here too: there is no flight-attendant flow-through to a mainline carrier. Flow-through is a pilot-program concept — no Allegiant FA job carries a guaranteed path to a legacy airline.
Sources listed at the end of each profile. Data compiled from airline careers pages, union publications, industry press, and candidate-reported interview intel — wave-dependent facts carry as-of dates.