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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3177458/The-horrifying-recording-passenger-plane-pilot-THREE-minutes-fuel-left-told-air-traffic-control-t-land-airport-closed.html  
 
 
How many people use this airline ?? will it affect your decision to continue using this airline knowing they weren't carrying enough fuel ?

if the plane left las vegas 1 hour late, why would they still close the fargo airport and not allow them to land? they should have contacted the plane before it left vegas to tell them not even to attempt to land in fargo. that should not have been a mid-air decision. IMO its more fargo airport's fault than allegiant's. yes they should have carried a little more fuel but it's not completely their fault.

A sm group of us went to vegas via: same carrier,outta Minot: we were late taking off also over an hr, due to wet ground and short take off strip(scary in itself. Then we're told also that the flight didn't have enough gas to do the "direct flight" and would be fuelling off in Fargo, which also took an extra long amount of time. This was in May2015

yep that is right Aircraft commonly run enough fuel for the trip plus a safety margin.  
Carrying fuel costs money so they only take what they need and if they spend an hour with engines running going no where then it can be a return trip to the terminal.

They are green in two ways. Green for burning less fuel and green for lining there pockets.

should of been aware of the Blue Angels practice, then made appropriate arrangements when they saw the flight being delayed. There would of been NOTAMS (Notice to Airmans) saying that the airport will be closed for the Blue Angels They also need to ensure the aircraft has enough fuel for going to their alternate. What if the runway was closed due to weather or an accident. Las Vegas isn't like Newark, Atlanta and others where there are long taxi delays.  
 
But it still looks like they did not put enough fuel on to got to alternate airports.  
 
From the FAA.  
http://rgl.faa.gov/REGULATORY_AND_GUIDANCE_LIBRARY/RGFAR.NSF/0/1cc5b5dad63e4806852566ef006dd813!OpenDocument  
 
'Sec. 121.639  
 
Fuel supply: All domestic operations.  
 
No person may dispatch or take off an airplane unless it has enough fuel--  
(a) To fly to the airport to which it is dispatched;  
(b) Thereafter, to fly to and land at the most distant alternate airport (where required) for the airport to which dispatched; and  
(c) Thereafter, to fly for 45 minutes at normal cruising fuel consumption or, for certificate holders who are authorized to conduct day VFR operations in their operations specifications and who are operating nontransport category airplanes type certificated after December 31, 1964, to fly for 30 minutes at normal cruising fuel consumption for day VFR operations.'  
 

I fly allegiant and will continue to fly with them. It's a discount airline, but a good one

like they've had a string emergencies in the past couple months. Looks like they didn't put on the FAA required 45 min of reserve fuel. They were delayed at the gate, so no engines running to burn fuel. McCarren Airport isn't that big compared to other major airport and doesn't have the taxiway congestion or delays  
 
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/airlines/allegiant-air-flight-runs-low-on-fuel-over-closed-airport-makes-emergency/2238936