Without frills, Allegiant Air brabably targets tourists, but the overwhelming coronavirus pandemic also does so to detect a new type of traveler.
The Las Vegas-based airline plans to start promoting paint packages from Las Vegas, adding nonstop airfares and a hotel room. The field: fly, stay, paint and play.
“We are working with one of The leading las Vegas casino operators to capture the opportunities presented through increased remote paints,” said Scott DeAngelo, the airline’s chief marketing officer, said Wednesday’s proceeds. “The business traveler who pays with the business card now offers a place for individual travelers who pay themselves checkered remotely, but away from home.”
Goals: professionals in major cities served through Allegiant, adding Oakland, California; Cincinnati Indianapolis Rockford, Illinois, outdoor Chicago; and even near Phoenix, dented DeAngelo in an interview with USA TODAY.
Why the vegas? Allegiant serves 58 cities from McCarran International Airport, and the Las Vegas Strip is filled with empty rooms, with missing conferences and meetings and is unlikely to return in the near future. CES, the giant customer-generating screen that starts the conference season every January, said this week that the 2021 screen would be virtual than in person.
All of this adds to reasonable packages, especially when the summer holiday season ends and Allegiant and other airlines are fighting for an even smaller group of lers.
During a four-night working day for a user at the MGM Grand in mid-September, the airline recently sells Air and Hotel packages from Indianapolis to Las Vegas on its $340 online page, adding taxes, seats and luggage and vacation fees.
From Cincinnati to Las Vegas, examples of mid-October costs for a three-night stay at Flamingo Las Vegas start at $227; Luxury Bellagio, $638.
DeAngelo said Las Vegas casino hotels, accustomed to welcoming travelers from around the world, have all the amenities travelers need, adding hubs, reliable Wi-Fi and assembly suites, if needed.
“You have perfectly designated properties, ” he said. “It’s like, ‘Oh, you know what, I’m going to have a bad reception because I’m heading to the mountains.’ ”
The wonderful attraction, of course: the restaurants and nightlife in Las Vegas, in addition to gambling.
“Why be tied there in your studio or in the workplace of your home when you can paint the day … and play at night?” DeAngelo said.
Allegiant spokeswoman Hilarie Gray flocked to the WeWork shared workspace, but with swimming pools, restaurants, department stores and first-class games on site.
DeAngelo said Allegiant had the concept of remote staff from his studies, apparently about 5% of his recent clients say they were traveling through a mix of business and leisure, as well as the media policy of destinations and individual hotels that were presented as conceptual work. stains from home.
“Consumers already have to do this gradually,” he said. “Working from anywhere is the new standard.”
MGM Resorts is the casino hotel operator on the Las Vegas Strip, with homes such as MGM Grand, New York-New York, Mandalay Bay, Aria and Park MGM.
MGM spokesman Brian Ahern declined to comment on any partnership with Allegiant.
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