Avelo Airlines will cut four routes, two each from Bradley International Airport (BDL) and Wilmington Airport (ILG), in the next few weeks, with its overall flight schedule still growing year-on-year (YoY).

Exiting two routes from Bradley-Hartford

As flagged by AeroRoutes and affirmed by data from the aviation analytics company Cirium’s Diio Mi airline planning tool, Avelo Airlines will no longer serve two destinations from Bradley International Airport (BDL) starting in April.

This includes flights to Concord-Padgett Regional Airport (USA) and Wilmington International Airport (ILM), located in North Carolina, the United States.

While Avelo Airlines began serving both routes with twice-weekly services in November 2024, becoming the only airline to do so, in February, Breeze Airways swooped in and started flying from Bradley-Hartford to Wilmington International.

The airline also launched twice-weekly services on the route with the Airbus A220-300 aircraft. Breeze Airways’ A220-300s seat 137 passengers, while Avelo Airlines’ Boeing 737-800s, which it has used to serve flights between Bradley-Hartford and Wilmington International, can welcome up to 189 passengers.

Still, despite Avelo Airlines’ cutting the two routes, the airline will keep four routes from the airport in Connecticut. In April, the carrier has planned eight weekly flights to four destinations (two weekly itineraries each): Cancun International Airport (CUN), Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB), Montego Bay Sangster International Airport (MBJ), and Punta Cana International Airport (PUJ).

Adjusting its network in Wilmington

In addition, Avelo Airlines will also exit two routes out of Wilmington Airport (ILG), located in Delaware, the US. The airport, which since February 2023 has been exclusively served by Avelo Airlines since Frontier Airlines’ exit in June 2022, will lose two routes to Concord-Padgett and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) in March.

The airline’s flights from Wilmington to Atlanta and Concord-Padgett began in November 2024, with itineraries connecting the Delawarean airport to Atlanta, becoming the second time a carrier had served the route since the 2010s. In 2014, Frontier Airlines flew to Atlanta from Wilmington three times per week.

Similarly to the two routes it cut from Bradley-Hartford, Avelo Airlines operated the pair with a 737-800 twice a week.

Cirium’s Diio Mi data showed that despite the two routes being discontinued at the end of February, in March, Avelo Airlines, which will remain the only airline at the airport, will serve flights to nine destinations, adding five weekly itineraries YoY.

New routes from the Delawarean Wilmington include twice-weekly itineraries to Daytona Beach and Lakeland Linder International Airport (LAL) each.

Modest growth

Cirium’s Diio Mi indicated that, in general, Avelo Airlines should operate 416 weekly itineraries in March, an increase of 16.2% compared to the same month a year prior. As a result, its capacity, measured in available seat kilometers (ASK), should grow by 17.8% YoY.

According to ch-aviation data, the airline took delivery of one 737-700 and three 737-800 aircraft in 2024. The 737-700 was formerly operated by the Brazil-based low-cost carrier Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes (GOL), while the trio of 737-800s was acquired after Aerolíneas Argentinas, GOL, and Southwest Airlines retired one aircraft of the type each.