Two months after launch, Avelo cuts destination cities, raises prices

Just over two months after launching operations, US start-up carrier Avelo Airlines is pulling back service to several of its launch cities, and raising prices. The low-cost airline, headquartered in Houston, on 7 July published its schedule through mid-January, and conspicuously absent were three destinations to which it started flights in April and May: Bozeman (Montana), Mesa (Arizona) and Grand Junction (Colorado). Avelo’s home base is Hollywood Burbank airport, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and its aircraft typically run out-and-back trips on all of its routes, returning to Burbank every evening. Test flight bookings on the company’s website to Mesa, Grand Junction and Bozeman showed no direct flights to those destinations beyond mid-September. ”These schedule changes include two markets where current customer demand is insufficient for us to justify continuing to fly beyond the summer,” Avelo says. ”We will re-evaluate returning to both markets for the summer of 2022.” The flights to Grand Junction will cease on 16 August and to Bozeman on 15 September, Avelo says, but it did not comment on the cessation of flights to Mesa.<br/>