Allegiant Air removed 61 routes from its July 2026 network compared with July 2025 and added 49 new routes, a churn that left the carrier with a net loss of 12 routes between the two months.
The cuts were concentrated: Allegiant’s full pullout from Los Angeles International Airport, Oakland International Airport, Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport and Norfolk International Airport accounted for 43% of the eliminated routes. Los Angeles alone accounted for 14 of the 61 route removals, including Bellingham, Cedar Rapids, Cincinnati, Spokane, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Little Rock, McAllen, Northwest Arkansas, Omaha, Sioux Falls, Springfield, Tulsa and Wichita; OAG flagged that eight of those LAX links were not picked up by another carrier from LAX.
The severed routes skewed long. The average stage length of the 61 eliminated routes was 831 nautical miles (1,539 kilometers), about 10% longer than Allegiant’s planned July network overall. Many of the longest cuts — Asheville to Phoenix Sky Harbor, Cedar Rapids–LAX, Cincinnati–LAX, Grand Rapids–LAX and Indianapolis–LAX — ended late in 2025 or at the start of 2026.
The Cincinnati–LAX pairing was the single longest eliminated route at 1,651 nautical miles (3,058 kilometers) and ran in Allegiant’s network from November 2017 through January 2026. The carrier recorded 272,000 round-trip passengers on that route; its average base one-way fare was $88 last year, about 60% higher than Allegiant’s network average, and the route carried a 91% seat fill. By comparison, Delta priced a similar Cincinnati–LAX option at a $303 base fare with a 77% load factor.
Not all of the LAX markets disappeared from Allegiant’s map entirely. The carrier continued to serve several of those destinations from other Southern California airports — Bellingham, Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis and Spokane were still on Allegiant’s schedule from Burbank or Orange County at the time of the comparison.
Smaller but visible clusters of cuts hit other airports: Norfolk lost six Allegiant links, Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood lost five, Oakland lost four, Orlando Sanford lost four and Las Vegas Harry Reid and Savannah Hilton Head each lost three. At the same time the carrier added new service: one notable addition was Gulf Shores, Alabama — a market that only received scheduled airline service beginning in May 2025 and where Allegiant was the sole operator.
Some route endings predated July 2026. Between May and August 2025 Allegiant briefly operated a twice-weekly service between Houston Hobby and Gulf Shores using Airbus A319 and A320 equipment; Department of Transportation filings show that route carried a 43% seat factor. Provo–Orlando Sanford was last served in February 2026 and is scheduled to return in December 2026, showing that at least some of the removed links are temporary or seasonal.
OAG’s comparison of July 2025 and July 2026 networks is the basis for the tally; the list includes routes that ended in 2025 and early 2026 as well as more recent cancellations. That timing matters: the headline figure of 61 removed routes captures a year of attrition rather than a single, sudden retrenchment.
The awkward fit in the numbers is the story’s friction point: 61 route removals sound dramatic, but the addition of 49 routes tempers the decline—netting out to a loss of 12 routes. The mix shows Allegiant pruning a set of longer, less-dense links while experimenting with or committing to new markets, including community-scale airports such as Gulf Shores. What the record does not fully show is which of the 61 route removals are permanent strategic exits and which are temporary suspensions, seasonal gaps or schedule cleanups carried over from 2025.
What comes next is partly known and partly unsettled. Provo–Orlando Sanford’s planned return in December 2026 is the only specific restoration date on the public record; Allegiant has not published a broader rollback-or-rebuild plan tied to the 61-route list. For travelers and airports on the losing end of the cuts, that gap is the immediate practical problem: some markets still have service from nearby airports, others do not, and only a few reinstatements have dates attached. The clearest conclusion is that Allegiant narrowed parts of its long-haul footprint between July 2025 and July 2026 while simultaneously adding new markets, leaving a smaller but still-altered route map and unanswered questions about which routes will ever come back.
