Allegiant cancels NoCo Regional Airport service ahead of November restart

LOVELAND — Allegiant Travel Co. (Nasdaq: ALGT) is pulling its service at Northern Colorado Regional Airport because it doesn’t have air traffic towers set up yet.

Allegiant spokeswoman Hilarie Grey told BizWest the Las Vegas-based airline expected to have a physical air traffic control tower up sometime in September or October before flights started in November, but conversations with the airport and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration made it clear that it wouldn’t be up and running with enough buffer time.

The delay was caused by contractor issues, she said.

Grey declined to say how many reservations were already made for the routes,…