allegiant travel co will establish a fouraircraft base at provo airport in utah planning to invest about 95 million and create at least 157 new jobs lowcost carrier allegiant air has atypical operations focused heavily on popular vacation destinations and smalltomedium cities it only operates nonstop flights allegiant began flying from provo in 2013 and has eight routes from there to texas florida arizona and california allegiant opened an austin texas base in november on feb 1 it announced nine new routes moodys investors service affirmed allegiants ratings on monday while changing its outlook to stable from positive among the us airlines allegiant has led the performance recovery from the depths of the pandemic operationally and financially moodys said the rating firm said allegiants network provides a resilient foundation the revised outlook reflects factors including higher oil and jet fuel prices and an industrywide pilot shortage