Avelo Airlines is a US low-cost airline headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company was founded in 1987 as Casino Express Airlines, was renamed Xtra Airways in 2005 and became Avelo Airlines in April 2021, when it started scheduled flights. It is owned by Avelo, Inc. and is not a member of any airline alliance.
Avelo flies point to point, mostly from smaller and less congested airports. Its bases are Tweed-New Haven in Connecticut, Wilmington in Delaware (serving the Philadelphia area), Lakeland in Central Florida and Concord-Padgett near Charlotte, with a fifth base at McKinney National Airport north of Dallas planned for November 2026. Its network covers around 37 destinations in the United States and Puerto Rico, with many routes to Florida and to leisure cities in the Southeast.
The fleet of 16 aircraft is made up of Boeing 737 Next Generation jets, mainly the 737-800.
