Avelo Airlines announced it is leading the industry in operational reliability as it heads into the busy Thanksgiving holiday travel period. During this 13-day holiday travel period spanning Thursday November 16 through Tuesday November 28, Avelo will fly more than 100,000 Customers on nearly 800 flights – a nearly 65% increase in Customers over the same period last year.

According to market research firm Anuvu, a leading aggregator of U.S. airline operating data, Avelo ranked #1 in year-to-date (YTD) on-time performance and achieved the lowest YTD flight cancellation rate among all U.S. carriers. Anuvu includes all 12 U.S. airlines offering scheduled service in its analysis.

Through the first 10 months of 2023, 82.8% of all Avelo flights arrived at their destinations within 15 minutes of their scheduled arrival time – the Department of Transportation's (DOT) standard metric for reporting on-time performance in the U.S. airline industry known as A14. The YTD industry average A14 was 76.5% and the #2 airline delivered an A14 of 81.8%.

Equally impressive was Avelo's YTD 0.12% flight cancellation rate. The YTD industry average flight cancellation rate was 1.5% and the airline with the second lowest flight cancellation rate cancelled 0.71% of its flights. 

Avelo also takes great pride in its industry-leading bag handling. Through October, Avelo has mishandled 3 bags per 1,000 checked bags. That's significantly better than the industry average of 7 mishandled bags per 1,000 checked bags.