Extremely-low-cost service Avelo is reportedly planning to finish service at Bradley Worldwide Airport in Connecticut subsequent 12 months.
The Connecticut Airport Authority, which operates Bradley and the state’s basic aviation airports, introduced Avelo’s deliberate withdrawal on Thursday, in line with a report from WFSB-TV in Hartford. The service’s three nonstop routes from Bradley – to Montego Bay, Jamaica, Cancún, and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic – will terminate in January 2026.
“The CAA is disillusioned and stunned to be taught of Avelo’s determination to tug out of Bradley Worldwide Airport, significantly its determination to cancel the state’s solely nonstop service to Montego Bay,” the CAA stated in an announcement.
Avelo stated it opted to depart the airport as a result of “a number of enterprise elements,” together with lack of demand, however the CAA was overtly important of that reasoning. The company known as Avelo’s determination to desert the Montego Bay route “inexplicable” and recommended the airline needed to benefit from state-provided incentives whereas dodging its “obligations” as an operator at Bradley.
Income Assure
In accordance with the Hartford Enterprise Journal, the state supplied Avelo with a income assure, help with advertising and marketing, and waivers of airport touchdown charges and terminal lease for its first 12 months of operations.
“Like all enterprise choices we make, this exit was made primarily based on details – the revenues available on the market didn’t cowl the prices,” Avelo stated in an announcement to WFSB. “Every other insinuation on the contrary is unlucky, false, and uninformed.”
Avelo’s tenure at Bradley was notably short-lived, with its first flights to Montego Bay and Cancún taking off in November 2024. The CAA stated it would work to revive nonstop service between Connecticut and Jamaica by bringing one other airline to Bradley.
Avelo will preserve a presence in Connecticut by its base at Tweed-New Haven Regional Airport.
