More trouble for Allegiant

That can actually be said about any airline. Remember, the same FAA inspects them all for YOU. Don't you feel safer now?

It's said that an accident is the end of a chain of events in which any broken link would have avoided. Allegiant seems to be working at forging those links rather than maintaining their fleet.

Reasonable people can disagree reasonably. There have been sufficient number of anecdotal reports of potentially questionable maintenance decisions and practices to allow one to suspect that problems exist that are not being safely addressed. There can be a reasonable conclusion that such problems at some point could precipitate a catastrophic fatal incident.

One engine shut down is a data point. Multiple data points can indicate trends which could be mischaracterized as 'uneducated'. The Titanic was type two error example - the unsinkable incorrect hypothesis was accepted as true. As you say about an Allegiant catastrophic crash, it hasn't happened. Yet.

And at worst, drama duchesses.

in 2015 42 of allegiant's 80 or so aircraft had in flight emergencies, 15 were emergency landings due to engine failures. last year they had 12 incidents per 10,000 flights. Maurice Gallagher was the head of ValuJet, a very similar business model, at the time of their crash. it isn't "uneducated commentary, it is simply looking at trends and realizing that there are definitely problems here. you can sell seat at ultra low rates but the undeniable truth is that maintenance budgets suffer. I'm certainly not wishing ill will on allegiant, I am simply pointing out obvious concerns. Concerns allegiant pilots and mechanics have referenced in the past two years.