While long-awaited airline startup Breeze moves closer and closer to flight, two more new contenders have popped up despite the pandemic-induced crash of airline business. One of the newcomers will start flying this month.
Avelo Airlines, based at Los Angeles area's Burbank Airport, started selling tickets Thursday for flights beginning April 28 with service from Burbank to eleven western cities. Similarly to Breeze's playbook, Avelo is picking routes where majors don't fly, or don't offer non-stop service. Initial destinations include Eugene, Oregon; Bozeman, Montana; Mesa/Phoenix, Arizona, Ogden Utah and several California cities. All flights will be on Boeing 737-800s.
The second startup, Connect Airlines, won't fly until October, and has a similar plan for flying from a single hub, in this case Toronto's close-in Billy Bishop Airport, where some of its routes will complete directly with Porter Airways, which already flies to some of the same northeast, midwest and Canadian cities. Both airlines base their service on Canada-built Q400 turboprops. It is a project of Waltzing Matilda Aviation, a long-time charter operator.
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