Allegiant is cancelling more flights because, it says, new planes didn't show up when expected. Customers are venting on social media, demanding reimbursement for things like last-minute hotel stays. Allegiant canceled 16 flights Friday after scrapping about 21 on Thursday. An Allegiant spokeswoman says delivery dates for some new planes were missed, leaving the airline with limited resources and the difficult choice to cancel certain flights. Levy says the airline is giving passengers options including rebooking on other Allegiant flights or refunds. Allegiant's ability to accommodate passengers is limited, however, because the Las Vegas-based carrier lacks agreements with other airlines to take its passengers when flights are cancelled. Allegiant has ordered new Airbus jets to replace its aging McDonnell-Douglas planes, which have been more prone to mechanical problems.<br/>
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The Italian Competition Authority has fined Ryanair E1.85m for mass cancellations of flights because of personnel rostering problems in the fall 2017 and early 2018. The authority concluded in September 2017 that Ryanair had cancelled numerous flights as a result of its own organisational and management failings, rather than extraordinary circumstances outside its control. These cancellations, the authority said, caused “considerable inconvenience to consumers who had long planned their travels and already booked and paid for their flight ticket.” Added to this, the competition authority said the Irish carrier had been “misleading” in the ways in which it informed the passengers of the cancellations, as it offered them only the options of a refund or ticket change, without adequately informing them of the existence of their further right to financial compensation under the EU’s Regulation 261/04. EU261 stipulates compensation of several hundred euros per passenger in the event of flights being cancelled or delayed beyond a certain point, if the cause was within an airline’s control. However, from February 2018, during the course of the authority’s investigation into the matter, Ryanair “changed its conduct, updating the information conveyed on its website, specifically in relation to the right to pecuniary compensation, as well as sending individual communications to interested consumers who have enabled them to fully understand all the rights due to them following the cancellation of flights and, consequently, to exercise them.”<br/>
India's Vistara has taken delivery its its 21st aircraft, an Airbus A320neo, completing the first phase of its fleet programme. Flight Fleets Analyzer shows that the Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines joint venture now operates eight A320neos and 13 A320ceos. With its 21st aircraft now in its fleet, the carrier has moved one step closer to launching international services. Under India's aviation regulations, carriers can only apply to operate international routes when they have 20 aircraft and then launch the respective services when their 21st is in its fleet. Vistara says however that the newest A320neo will be deployed on its domestic network.<br/>
Canadian start-up Swoop has filed a request with US regulators to begin flights to the USA on 11 October. In an application with the US DoT, the airline, a division of Calgary-based WestJet, says it intends to fly from Canada to Las Vegas, Orlando, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale and Phoenix. The 15 June filing does not specify from which cities Swoop intends to serve those destinations. The company said it expects to release more details near the end of July after it receives approvals. Swoop plans to begin operations on 20 June with flights from Hamilton, which is southwest of Toronto, to both Abbotsford and Halifax. Later that week it will begin Hamilton-Edmonton and Hamilton-Winnipeg flights. The unit will initially operate two Boeing 737-800s equipped with 189 seats, but plans to grow its fleet to six 737-800s by the end of 2018, the regulatory filing says.<br/>