The three new routes are significantly different from its current focus on Florida, Charleston, Myrtle Beach, and Savannah, and they bring to 13 its route network from the Connecticut airport. The announcement comes ahead of two additional routes being revealed later this week from Burbank.

Avelo adds 3 routes from HVN

Avelo's in expansion mode again, with Baltimore, Chicago Midway, and Raleigh Durham all to launch at the end of May. When writing ahead of the official announcement, the exact timings aren't known. However, one-way base fares (including only a small personal item) are available to Baltimore from $49, Raleigh Durham from $59, and Chicago from $69. The details:

  1. Baltimore: starts May 26th, 5x weekly (Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays)
  2. Chicago Midway: begins May 26th, 5x weekly (Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays)
  3. Raleigh Durham: starts May 26th, 5x weekly (Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays)

They come soon after four new routes were announced from New Haven, an airport Avelo inaugurated on November 3rd and at which Avelo has now carried over 100,000 passengers, according to the latest information from the carrier. It's located about 42 miles (68km) from Hartford and 54 miles (87km) from Westchester.

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Avelo Airlines' East and West Coast route networks. Note that this does not include the two new routes from Hollywood Burbank - Boise and Spokane. Image: Avelo Airlines.

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Now 13 routes

Looking at the week beginning May 26th, when all three routes launch, Avelo has 69 departures planned from New Haven or about 10x daily. It means the Connecticut airport will have a third of Avelo's total departures that week, according to the latest OAG data.

  1. Baltimore (BWI): starts May 26th; 5x weekly
  2. Charleston (CHS): starts May 5th; 4x weekly
  3. Chicago Midway (MDW): starts May 26th; 5x weekly
  4. Fort Lauderdale (FLL): 6x weekly
  5. Fort Myers (RSW); 6x weekly
  6. Myrtle Beach (MYR); begins May 5th; 7x weekly (two flights on Saturday)
  7. Nashville (BNA): begins May 6th; 4x weekly
  8. Orlando (MCO): 8x weekly (two flights on Saturday)
  9. Raleigh Durham (RDU): begins May 26th; 5x weekly
  10. Sarasota (SRQ): 4x weekly
  11. Savannah (SAV); begins May 6th; 4x weekly
  12. Tampa (TPA): 5x weekly
  13. West Palm Beach (PBI): 6x weekly
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Avelo Airlines launched its Tweed-New Haven-Palm Beach service in December. Photo: Avelo.

Chicago: last served 26 years ago

While New Haven hasn't had service to Midway before, it was previously connected to O'Hare – but over a quarter of a century ago. United last operated the route between May 1991 and April 1996 using B737-300s and B737-500s, according to T-100 data.

Baltimore has also been served before and much more recently. It was operated by Boston-Maine Airways between March and July 2007 using 19-seat Jetstream 31s. T-100 shows that it had an average seat factor of just 13% or about 3 passengers per departure. It was no doubt heavily hindered by high fares (to cover the type's high seat-mile costs) and a lack of awareness.

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