Allegiant Air safety issues

As a lifelong aviation enthusiast and having read the numerous news articles on the incidents involving Allegiant Airlines' planes, I am gravely concerned about the airline's state of affairs. As we've seen, the majority of the incidents involve the MD-80, the one plane that comprises the majority of the airline's entire fleet, and one of the safest and most reliable planes ever built. And a few of the incidents also involve the Airbus A320, the 2nd most popular plane in the world, second only to the Boeing 737, THE most popular airliner in the world since its inception in the early 1960's. Many people who have worked for Allegiant, including many of their mechanics, high ranking supervisors and maintenance personnel, but the flight attendants and the pilots, many of them ranging from jocks right out of flight training, to seasoned veterans, have been fleeing the airline, desperate for their own safety and security, and for a better and safer work environment. Mechanical issues aren't the only thing that's plaguing Allegiant Air, missed, cancelled and even diverted flights. A local Vegas family was headed to California on vacation, and thanks to Allegiant's issues, their vacation was ruined. The pilots, flight attendants, mechanics and supervisors who made the decision to leave the airline made a personal resolution that the next time their safety and security was being endangered, threatened, or seriously jeopardized, they would leave, and nothing anyone said to them would change their minds. In a shocking twist of events, in January last year, the COO of Allegiant, Steven Harfst, declared his official resignation. Given the recent events that have been plaguing the airline, the people who are resigning are saving their own lives. The majority of the cases were entirely preventable, had proper maintenance procedures been followed and the money needed to fund the maintenance been spent. Numerous underwriters feel that the incidents have raised serious safety questions about the airline, and I'm not the only one who is deeply concerned. John Goglia, a DC-9 expert and a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board, voiced his concerns over the incidents in a FaceTime call with ABC News 13 investigator Darcy Spears, and in doing the interview, he said that the events have given him a painful reminder of the crash of Valujet flight 592, a DC-9 enroute from Miami to Atlanta slammed into the Florida Everglades after a fire fueled by boxes containing improperly secured and packaged oxygen generators ignited in the cargo hold, crippling the plane and overpowering the crew members and passengers. All 110 people onboard were killed in the crash. He helped investigate what led to the accident with a now retired chief investigator also working with the NTSB, Greg Feith. The report on the Valujet crash in the Everglades was clear cut and deeply shocking, the company's measures to put profits over passenger and employee safety was not only unsafe and morally wrong, but also extremely dangerous. Simply put, Valujet was putting the lives of not only their employees but their passengers in mortal danger. The fact that the airline is using the same business tactics that Valujet used to conduct their day to day operations more than convinced me that the airline is going down the same road that Valujet was going down prior to the flight 592 disaster and the flight 597 incident. Given the fact that the current CEO of Allegiant is the ex CEO of Valujet, I am more than convinced that there could be a repeat of the events of flight 592, and with things the way they are now at Allegiant, it's no longer a question of IF a disaster is going to happen but WHEN….