Communications Committee Update – July 7, 2025

Fellow Pilots,

Today, Allegiant CEO Greg Anderson was “pleased” to announce that Allegiant sold the failing Sunseeker Resort for just $200 million. They spent over $720 million to build it, excluding the substantial operational losses incurred during its short life. That’s a loss of over $520+ million.

The “best in class” management team recovered just 28 cents on the dollar.

Allegiant Pilots have been terminated for much less.

These “managers” are still employed, while some Allegiant pilots have been fired for simply doing their jobs in difficult situations. Allegiant pilots are being aggressively targeted for things like standing up for safety and using the fatigue program, yet management is high fiving itself over this colossal failure.

If management is willing to accept 28 cents on the dollar for their own mistakes, how can we trust them with our future, let alone their financial obligations to us? Will our retention bonuses be the next Allegiant obligation to take a “discount”?

IT’S TIME 

Management has repeatedly told pilots they want to pay the bonus, if only the Union would “just get out of the way” and “make it happen”. As an unwilling Allegiant debtholder, we now demand that our retention bonus be paid immediately — in full — before another $200 million quietly vanishes into C-suite bonuses and other ridiculous projects. Our pilots have carried this airline through management’s repeated blunders, a global pandemic, and now four years of fruitless negotiations. No excuses. The bonus must be paid.

Additionally, let’s take a hard look at who’s leading this company. It’s time to openly discuss our lack of confidence in our senior management and the Board of Directors that enabled these disasters. The managers who spent nearly $ 1 billion on Sunseeker and lost tens of millions more per quarter trying to keep it afloat want to tell you that you’re not worth a contract that matches your peers.

If we aren’t worth a contract that matches our peers, are we at least worthy of a management team that can run an airline?

In Unity,

Communications Committee
APA Teamsters Local 2118