Allegiant Air has announced service to Hawaii using Boeing 757s. We don't know from where or when, but it is exciting for a number of different reasons.

Allegiant currently only has a fleet of MD-80 aircraft. Their business model of owning their older aircraft has worked and seeing a deviation from their current model is pretty interesting. It also means we get to see Allegiant's livery on another aircraft type.

The airline is expanding their route map to Hawaii, which will be the longest route they serve. To help do this, Allegiant is retrofitting their newly purchased Boeing 757s with blended winglets.

Yesterday I hoped to get a glimpse of the winglets while the the aircraft are being worked on at Paine Field, but no luck. I figured they would be locked away, but it was a hot day and maybe a hangar door would be open. However, I was lucky enough to get in possession of this wonderful photo of one of Allegiant's Boeing 757s with a new liveried winglet. You can see that the body still has the old Thompson livery without titles.

Aviation-Designs.net has a rough mock-up of what the Allegiant 757 might look like, but without the winglets.

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October 2002

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