New Airlinr coming to Las Vegas

September 17th, 2021 at 1:23:55 PM permalink
DRich
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Avelo Airlines is a group of people that broke off from Allegiant Airlines and is starting their own, It sounds like they will follow the Allegiant model of flying to smaller less crowded and cheaper airports, It sounds like their fleet is comprised of Boeing 737's (I don't know how many).

I look forward to all of the airline competition that we can get.


https://www.aveloair.com/
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September 17th, 2021 at 2:34:38 PM permalink
AZDuffman
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Another bunch of people want to lose money starting an airline.....
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September 18th, 2021 at 6:42:10 AM permalink
Pacomartin
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Quote: DRich
It sounds like their fleet is comprised of Boeing 737's (I don't know how many).


Six leased aircraft
Three Boeing 737-700 with 149 seats (13.4 to 13.7 years old) retired from Southwest Airlines
Three Boeing 737-800 with 189 seats (14.0 to 15.8 years old) retired from Egyptian, Turkish and Dutch companies

Sounds like only a single route out of Vegas so far *to wine country"
454 miles LAS Las Vegas [Harry Reid Intl (McCarran Intl)], NV to STS Santa Rosa [Charles M Schulz - Sonoma County Airport], CA
September 18th, 2021 at 3:11:35 PM permalink
DRich
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Quote: AZDuffman
Another bunch of people want to lose money starting an airline.....


I think it is great. I like finding cheap seats. I will go anywhere for a weekend if it is cheap.

About 25 years ago Northwest airlines had a program where you could show up to the airport and for $99 (I think) they would give you a random roundtrip ticket to an airport that they had unsold seats on. You did not know where you were going until you paid. I loved the idea. I did it twice, once to Minneapolis and once to Seattle. The ones I did were both Friday to Sunday. I don't think they did it during the week.
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