{"id":2397,"date":"2023-02-02T12:04:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T12:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviation-news.info\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2023-02-02T12:04:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T12:04:59","slug":"startup-carrier-avelo-puts-delaware-back-on-the-aviation-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviation-news.info\/?p=2397","title":{"rendered":"Startup carrier Avelo puts Delaware back on the aviation map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathaniel Brown, a logistics manager from Wilmington, Delaware, booked a flight on a whim to visit his sister in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>For months, it was not possible to book a flight out of Delaware \u2014 it was the only state in the U.S. without commercial air service. Instead, local travelers had drive to nearby cities like Philadelphia or Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>However, on Wednesday, Brown was one of the passengers boarding Avelo Airlines&#8217; first flight from Wilmington.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier&#8217;s arrival there will give Delaware its first commercial passenger flight in nearly seven months. A number of other carriers \u2014 including Delta Air Lines and Frontier Airlines \u2014 have come and gone in recent years. Now, Avelo and local officials hope the state can shake that dubious track record for good.<\/p>\n<p>Avelo&#8217;s Orlando service that began Wednesday is the first of five routes to Florida that the airline is adding at Wilmington Airport (ILG). Other new routes coming this month are to Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Tampa and West Palm Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Avelo founder and CEO Andrew Levy believes the carrier can be successful in Delaware despite the market&#8217;s checkered record of airline service.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s betting on a formula that focuses on nonstop flights to popular leisure markets. To get started, Avelo will base one of its 737s in Wilmington, making it the airline\u2019s fourth base alongside Burbank, California; New Haven, Connecticut; and Orlando.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"jsx-19345235 tpg-figure\">\n<div class=\"jsx-185092990 full-width-auto-height-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thepointsguy.global.ssl.fastly.net\/us\/originals\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1181528815-scaled.jpg?width=3840\" data-sizes=\"100vw\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thepointsguy.global.ssl.fastly.net\/us\/originals\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1181528815-scaled.jpg?width=640 640w, https:\/\/thepointsguy.global.ssl.fastly.net\/us\/originals\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1181528815-scaled.jpg?width=750 750w, https:\/\/thepointsguy.global.ssl.fastly.net\/us\/originals\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1181528815-scaled.jpg?width=828 828w, https:\/\/thepointsguy.global.ssl.fastly.net\/us\/originals\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1181528815-scaled.jpg?width=1080 1080w, https:\/\/thepointsguy.global.ssl.fastly.net\/us\/originals\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1181528815-scaled.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/thepointsguy.global.ssl.fastly.net\/us\/originals\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1181528815-scaled.jpg?width=1920 1920w, https:\/\/thepointsguy.global.ssl.fastly.net\/us\/originals\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1181528815-scaled.jpg?width=2048 2048w, https:\/\/thepointsguy.global.ssl.fastly.net\/us\/originals\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1181528815-scaled.jpg?width=3840 3840w\" alt=\"\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"jsx-19345235 figcaption\">CHRISBOSWELL\/GETTY IMAGES\/ISTOCKPHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat we&#8217;re doing is just simply different than what anybody else has done to my knowledge,\u201d Levy said about his carrier\u2019s plans for Wilmington in an interview with TPG ahead of the inaugural. \u201cWe&#8217;re putting an airplane in there with our own people, the airplane\u2019s gonna live there. It&#8217;s gonna come home there every night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision to launch flights from Delaware largely mirrors what Avelo has done at its base at Tweed New Haven Airport (HVN) \u2014 previously a little-used airport that sits in a dense population corridor. Avelo has launched flights from the airport mostly to leisure destinations \u2013 routes where the carrier has no direct competition since it is the only airline there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathaniel Brown, a logistics manager from Wilmington, Delaware, booked a flight on a whim to visit his sister in Orlando. For months, it was not possible to book a flight out of Delaware \u2014 it was the only state in the U.S. without commercial air service. 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