Aug. 29, 2025
— Jeff Ward, Lehigh Valley News Briefs
Allegiant, the discount airline that takes Lehigh Valley residents to the Sunbelt, carried more than 2 million people in July.
The Las Vegas-based airline’s preliminary figures say Allegiant carried 2.02 million passengers nationwide last month, up from 1.9 million in July 2024. Allegiant paid an average of $2.58 per gallon of fuel in the month.
Here are the numbers from a press statement:
Scheduled Service – Year Over Year Comparison
| July 2025 | July 2024 | Change | |
| Passengers | 2,092,740 | 1,897,963 | 10.3 % |
| Revenue passenger miles (000) | 1,856,141 | 1,683,321 | 10.3 % |
| Available seat miles (000) | 2,143,669 | 1,923,205 | 11.5 % |
| Load factor | 86.6 % | 87.5 % | (0.9pts) |
| Departures | 14,061 | 12,580 | 11.8 % |
| Average stage length (miles) | 867 | 870 | (0.4 %) |
Allegiant was founded in 1999. It takes Lehigh Valley vacationers to South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee and Denver.
Shares in Allegiant (NASDAQ:ALGT) traded at $61.02 at 9:31 a.m. today (Aug. 29) giving the airline a market capitalization of $1.14 billion.
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