Budget Airline Celebrates 100 Days At Tweed

Tweed needs an agreement with Uber, all modes of transit should be providing regular service to Tweed, Uber, Metro Taxi, CT Transit, etc.
It is a disservice to your customers not to allow all ride services providers to service Tweed, and will impact a customer’s decision on whether to use Tweed if they have difficulty getting to or from the airport without a personal vehicle of their own or getting a ride from someone they know.
I hope the new upcoming service routes will go to the Mid-Atlantic areas and Midwest areas.

Don't understand the problem with Uber/Lyft. I picked up some friends at Tweed, I was directed to an area by the old Car Rental Lot and waited. I know at Union Station Taxi Cabs have a designated line while Uber vehicles wait in line with other pick up vehicles. I do remember when Uber first arrived in New Haven disrupted Metro Taxi's near monopoly of service. Let's not mess this up but this is New Haven.

Hoping for Chicago flights with continuing service to Burbank. That would serve both Chicago and Los Angeles, both very popular destinations. Seems the few who said there was no market for air travel and that the airport was a loser were way off. Metro New Haven area travelers have a different view of Tweed and are finding Tweed to be much closer and easier to use than Bradley field.

Agree Steve - would be amazing to be able to get to Chicago with a connection to LA.

Companies would be able to remain in New Haven as they grow, and New Haven businesses could begin to host conferences and events again.

Currently, many companies in the area have to hold their meetings in New York, Boston, or even Hartford. Bradley is great for retirees wanting to go wherever, but is way too far to ask meeting attendees to travel to/from on a Friday during rush hour.

Hope that the approval of the new terminal is fast-tracked and a few more airlines can come in to offer service to hubs like Denver, Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas, and DC.

I was happy to see this service start, but not so much now, as there's a flight out about 7.30am and two coming in just around 5.00pm, and they are all noisy in the Heights. I feel sorry for the people in the Cove. I'm just hoping these new destinations might be somewhere I want to go, otherwise I'm going to be very unhappy.

I am waiting to see in black and white, what the financials say about Tweed. Costs vs Income for the City of New Haven; not Avelo. What did it bring to NEW HAVEN, money-wise? If there is such a market for travelers here, it never existed before and that's part of what caused my opposition. That and the impact on the Cove's people and environment. Now that the people of the area have been neutralised, perhaps the City/State/Yale will buy up affected properties and enlarge the airport to their hearts' delight. Buy Lighthouse Park and make a runway. Knock down Nathan Hale School and put up a parking lot...... Just allow the people who are trapped there to leave with more than the clothes on their backs.

Since a former President first brought a property on the Island of Martha's Vineyard, and is now scouting property on the Island State of Hawaii perhaps we all should do the same. Enjoy and use the property until what ever apocalyptic event happens. After all we have built a new harbor bridge on a highway built on land fall and have plans to expand a Rail Station that at one time was part of the cities harbor. I for one and not currently spending the monetary windfall I'll have when my house becomes beach front property after the apocalypse.

I’m hearing Avelo is doing a horrible job keeping planes on time and making people wait days for flights back.

Red alert: https://crankyflier.com/2021/07/02/correction-avelos-operational-performance-was-not-bad/
There's really no reason for flights to be late out of HVN. The beauty of HVN is Avelo is the only airline, so there's no line for take-off. Avelo encourages checked baggage over carry-on, so boarding should be faster. Not sure what you mean about waiting days for a flight back. Its flights are mostly full, and it only has three HVN aircraft, so any weather cancellations mean one is better off renting a car to drive back. Otherwise, are you saying people are being bumped a lot?

@CityYankee2steve "Dear steve, the story of the finances has yet to be told, as per my questions above. Let's see; rather than be prematurely declaring victory. My taxes are still climbing as NH services decline and our city gets dirtier, more violent, and more broken down." Hello CityYankee2, it's been a long time since your last post. First, taxes increasing is a constant, not the fault of Tweed since that subsidy will end. "dirtier, more violent, and more broken down." As bad as New Haven is, Hartford, Bridgeport rank lower than New Haven.
Don't know if you remember and I cannot find the post where we both agreed to admit if Tweed would get better of worse & depending on the results, one of us would admit we were wrong. While it's still early, the commitment by Avelo was much more than I expected. If Allegiant came to Tweed the service would have been two weekly flights each to both Sanford and St Pete Florida. That's their business model. Avelo with six cities in Florida and the flights are doing very to the point that Avelo will add more flights to Florida & add 2 non-Florida cities. Would they be increasing flights if ridership was low? Bradley has Hartford and Springfield as it's market & Tweed has New Haven and Bridgeport as it's market. To say Tweed has no market for air travel is just sticking ones head in the sand. Face the facts, many people are using the Avelo service and that cannot be denied. I will wait to see how things turn out for Tweed before saying I won. The virus is still here and oil prices have jumped much higher. Many East Haveners and New Haveners are using the service so the locals are voting for Tweed with their wallets.
A recent article said the state is willing to fund Sikorsky airport 10 million tax dollars in hopes of gaining airline service. Impossible, runway much shorter and sits at a lower elevation than Tweed and has no terminal. All this to draw away attention that Tweed is succeeding. Tweed, the airport for the shoreline.

@CityYankee2
My 33 year old daughter lives and works in Ft Lauderdale and has made 6 round trips home to CT on Avelo. She is not an old Fart.
My 25 year old daughter has already made 4 business trips to Orlando on Avelo. All of this is instead of flying from White Plains on Jet Blue as they have in the past.
Loads of young people on these flights

@1644
Actually there are reasons to be late taking off from New Haven that have nothing to do with Avelo and/or Tweed.
Traffic patterns, weather conditions, Blocked zones (e.g. Presidential plane in the area), problem at destination airport, may cause air traffic controllers to delay a departure.
I remember two hour takeoff delays at O'Hare because Laguardia was backed up and would have no open gates as a common occurrence in my actve working years.

As a fairly frequent flyer from Bradley and sometimes JFK, I love being able to have the closer airport. A direct flight to Asheville NC would be great- no one does that for some reason. Getting to a NY airport for international flights would also be much appreciated- the cost and time for round trip would most likely be cheaper and more convenient than driving or getting a car service . Question to the commenter about the former president’s living arrangements… is there a law now about buying property wherever you can afford it? Do you care about where other former presidents live?

@lrobin "As a fairly frequent flyer from Bradley and sometimes JFK, I love being able to have the closer airport. A direct flight to Asheville NC would be great- no one does that for some reason." The reason is Ashville is a very small market for airlines to commit a plane and crew for few passengers. Small cities are served by large hub airports where passengers from other cities can be combined at the hub airport to fill a plane to small cities like Asheville, etc. Even larger cities in North Carolina like Greensboro have most service by connecting at a hub airport like Charlotte, Atlanta, etc. Asheville for its size has a good combination of airlines and flights.

The naysayers said, "There's NO market for air service from New Haven." Avelo is on track to shatter United's 1991 record of 132,000 boardings, with more destinations to come.
They said, "The airport is a drain on taxpayer money." Avelo and Avports funded the current improvements with Avports poised to spend $100 million more, providing many jobs to boot. And after next year, there will be 0 tax dollars spent on the airport.
And those travel dollars? They're staying right HERE, in the New Haven area. Not going to Windsor Locks or, worse, out of state. THAT'S the "financial picture" I'M interested in.
Perhaps City Yankee should find out how much bang for the buck his tax dollars are getting in education and police services.
Hey, I understand. Haters gonna hate, whether it's the Yankees, Tom Brady, the Williams Sisters, or even Southern Connecticut's airport.
They're like crabs in a bucket; when they see one of their own trying to make it to the top, what do they do? They try to pull 'em down.
Tweed is no exception.
But I'm also a realist.
Who knows how long the momentum will carry? A new COVID outbreak or a dramatic spike in the price of oil could impact the airport's operations, as would happen to all U. S. airports. Or Avelo or Avports could make a wrong move that will cost them. Hey, it can happen.
But for now at least, I'm enjoying this.

For those who asked for more flights to non Florida cities, tomorrow Avelo will announce new service.

@CityYankee2 "Don't know if you remember and I cannot find the post where we both agreed to admit if Tweed would get better of worse & depending on the results, one of us would admit we were wrong." I found the posts, one where I make that statement and the following one where you say, "It's a deal , steve. We shall see."
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/eminent_domain I am not trying to cause a rift here but so far I feel Avelo has exceded my expectations of the level of service and the publics response. The phrase some used that there is no market for air travel in the metro New Haven area as been debunked.Its a strong market and adding 100 jobs has been an extra perk. Still, no one can forecast the future, high fuel prices, the economy, etc but for far, so good.