Allegiant reports February 2022 traffic

Allegiant Travel Company has reported preliminary passenger traffic results for February 2022. “After a slow start to the quarter, attributable to the Omicron variant, we saw a significant step-up in leisure demand beginning mid-February and persisting into March,” stated Drew Wells, senior vice president, revenue. “We finished February with a load factor of 77.8 percent, a more than eight-point improvement over January. Load factor during the month of March is currently trending above levels observed in 2019, with several weeks exceeding 90 percent booked loads, marking the first time we’ve seen loads at this level since the onset of the