Avelo Airlines announces new base in Fort Myers

Avelo Airlines continues to accelerate its growth in the United States with the opening of a fourth base in Fort Myers (RSW) this fall. This is the carrier’s second base in Florida.

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The low-cost carrier currently has bases at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Burbank Airport (BUR), Southern Connecticut’s Tweed-New Haven Airport (HVN) and Orlando International Airport (MCO).

«The opening of Avelo’s fourth base in Fort Myers this fall will allow us to serve more destinations, add more flights, operate more aircraft, fly more Customers and employ more Crewmembers,» said Andrew Levy, president and CEO of Avelo Airlines.

«Building on the success of our initial route between Southern Connecticut and Fort Myers, we have announced four additional destinations that will take flight from RSW this fall, creating a significant source of new visitors to Southwest Florida. This is just the beginning,» Levy added.

Avelo will offer nonstop service from cities not served by Fort Myers (RSW), with these new routes the airline will offer connectivity to Southwest Florida. The low-cost airline plans to create 35 jobs based at RSW including: airport customer service, technical operations and aircraft maintenance, pilots, flight attendants and supervisors.

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«Following the recent announcement of nonstop flights to four new markets from Southwest Florida International Airport, we are pleased to see that Avelo Airlines will also invest in creating more jobs at RSW to support its Fort Myers operations. We look forward to working with Avelo and being a part of their growth in Southwest Florida,» said Ben Siegel, CPA, CM, executive director of the Lee County Port Authority.

Rapid expansion from RSW

By this fall, Avelo will base a 189-seat Next Generation Boeing 737-800 at Fort Myers (RSW) and according to data obtained by Aviacionline through Cirium, the company will have a 7,476 weekly seat offering in 44 air operations. It will be the tenth largest airline operator at Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW).

Avelo currently offers daily flights between New Haven (HVN) and Fort Myers (RSW) and beginning Nov. 10 will serve four new nonstop services including: Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina (RDU), Binghamton, New York (BGM) and two cities in Chicago: Kalamazoo (AZO) and Lansing (LAN).

Southwest Florida International Airport exceeds 2019 levels.

Fort Myers (RWS) continues to grow steadily with the arrival of new operators and the steady increase in seat capacity and frequencies of the airlines currently operating at this airport.

Data obtained by Aviacionline through Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) statistics indicates that between January and July 2022 at RSW 7,100,853 passengers and 10,029.6 tons of cargo have been mobilized in 60,477 air operations, this represents an increase of 6.8%, 12.2% and 11.8% respectively compared to the same period in 2019. Fort Myers (RSW) is currently the fourth largest airport in Florida.

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