Allegiant Travel Company has reported an improvement in its traffic results for May 2021. For the total system, Allegiant carrier 1.06 million passengers in May – a 18.3% reduction over May 2019 numbers but up significantly over the 365,519 passengers flown in May 2020. Capacity for May, measured in available seat miles, was 1.346 million – down 2.3% over May 2019 levels. Load factors for May 2021 was 68.7% for its scheduled services.
"We have been pleased to see leisure demand recovery persist throughout May and into early June," stated Drew Wells, senior vice president, revenue. "Average daily bookings since the beginning of March have continued to exceed 2019 levels. May saw a nearly five-point increase in load factor when compared with April, and peak Memorial Day travel days saw load factors of roughly 80 percent. We anticipate June loads will be in excess of 75 percent on year-over-two-year capacity increases of roughly 15 percent. We continue to expect second quarter scheduled service revenue, excluding fixed fee and other revenue, to be down six to ten percent when compared with the second quarter of 2019.