Discount commercialized relation Avelo Airlines is making a comeback to Las Vegas with caller flights to and from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
The hose announced Tuesday that starting Nov. 12 it volition alert 4 times a week betwixt Harry Reid International Airport and McKinney National Airport, a reliever airdrome for Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Love Field astir 30 miles northbound of downtown Dallas.
Formerly known arsenic Collin County Regional Airport astatine McKinney, the airdrome was purchased successful 2013 by the metropolis of McKinney, Texas, for $25 cardinal arsenic a wide aviation airport.
Houston-based Avelo volition crook the airdrome into a caller basal of operations.
When Avelo begins flights connected Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, it volition rip a leafage from the aged Southwest Airlines operational playbook by utilizing secondary airports successful ample markets arsenic a convenience to customers.
Avelo has flown astir 10 cardinal customers connected astir 80,000 flights and presently serves 37 destinations successful 15 states and 2 Puerto Rican destinations, Aguadilla and San Juan.
It’s somewhat of a homecoming for laminitis and CEO Andrew Levy, who formerly served arsenic president of Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air and recruited respective Allegiant employees to enactment for him.
“We’re excited to instrumentality to Las Vegas and marque it easier than ever for travelers to sojourn 1 of America’s astir iconic destinations,” Levy said successful an emailed release. “Our caller nonstop work betwixt Las Vegas and North Dallas-McKinney provides travelers with a convenient, affordable and reliable question enactment portion connecting 2 fast-growing markets. Whether customers are readying a play getaway, visiting friends and family, oregon traveling for business, Avelo continues to present the acquisition our customers value.”
Avelo began operations successful April 2021, making its archetypal flights to and from Las Vegas successful September that year. In its clip successful Las Vegas, Avelo offered flights to Northern California vino country, Oregon, Utah and Northern Colorado.
In September 2025, Avelo made the strategical determination to adjacent its basal astatine Hollywood-Burbank Airport successful Southern California, and, astatine the aforesaid time, discontinued operations successful Las Vegas.
Most of its Las Vegas flights were operated connected 189-seat twin-engine Boeing 737-800 aircraft. In 2028, Avelo volition beryllium the archetypal U.S. hose to alert the Embraer 195-E2 aircraft, a new, mainline pitchy with 140 seats successful a 2-by-2 configuration wherever nary 1 ever has a mediate seat. Avelo placed an bid for up to 100 Embraer E195-E2s successful September 2025.
Avelo serves 37 destinations crossed the United States, including its bases astatine Southern Connecticut’s Tweed-New Haven Airport, the Philadelphia-Delaware Valley’s Wilmington Airport, Central Florida’s Lakeland International Airport, Charlotte’s Concord-Padgett Regional Airport and, successful November, Collin County’s McKinney National Airport.
Avelo is introducing its Dallas work with one-way fares starting astatine $99 and bookings made done July volition see the archetypal checked container free. Travelers tin marque reservations astatine AveloAir.com.
Contact Richard N. Velotta astatine rvelotta@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-477-3893. Follow @RickVelotta connected X.
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