Profile

The Allegiant Travel Company is an American travel and hospitality company that is the parent of Allegiant Air. Other subsidiaries include Sunseeker Resorts and Allegiant Nonstop. The Allegiant Travel Company is headquartered in the Las Vegas suburb of Summerlin, Nevada and is publicly traded on the Nasdaq exchange under the stock ticker symbol, ALGT. Its chairman and CEO is Maurice J. Gallagher Jr. The Allegiant Travel Company was founded in 1999 as the parent company of Allegiant Air, which itself had been founded in 1997. Initially based out of Fresno, California, the company reorganized in 2000 with Maurice J. Gallagher Jr. gaining an almost 20 percent stake in the company. He had previously been a prominent creditor of Allegiant and was one of the co-founders of ValuJet Airlines.