If you're already thinking about your spring break vacation, low-budget Avelo Airlines has extended its flight schedule for six Florida airports through April 2027.
"Avelo Customers can now book travel to 12 popular destinations," the carrier said in an email. One-way fares start at $42.
The low-cost carrier has extended Avelo's Florida flight schedule through April 20, 2027, "so travelers have even more runway to lock in our affordable fares and start planning," Avelo Airlines Head of Network and Revenue Trevor Yealy said in the email.
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The Houston, Texas-based carrier announced the extension for six Florida airports: Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB); Fort Myers’ Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW);
Lakeland International Airport (LAL); Orlando International Airport (MCO); Sarasota Bradenton International Airport (SRQ); and Tampa International Airport (TPA).
Avelo also serves Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) and Jacksonville International Airport (JAX), and will begin flights to Key West (EYW) in November. An email asking if those airport schedules were extended as well has not yet been answered.
The Houston, Texas-based carrier recently announced four new nonstop flights between Florida airports and North Carolina and Puerto Rico, and nonstop routes to Texas from four different Florida airports, all starting in November.
Avelo destinations included in the Florida extended routes
Avelo is known for flying to smaller airports as well as major hubs. The cities you can reach nonstop from Florida include:
- Aguadilla, Puerto Rico (BQN)
- Atlanta, Ga. (ATL)
- Charlotte / Concord, N.C. (USA)
- Dallas / McKinney, Texas (DTX)
- Detroit, Mich. (DTW)
- Grand Rapids, Mich. (GRR)
- Nashville, Tenn. (BNA)
- New Haven, Conn. (HVN)
- Philadelphia / Wilmington, Del. (ILG)
- Rochester, N.Y. (ROC)
- San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU)
- Wilmington, N.C. (ILM)
Avelo's growth in Florida and other states
Since launching in 2021 — the first new U.S. carrier in nearly 15 years — Avelo's network has grown to 37 nonstop destinations in 15 states. In April, the carrier flew its 10 millionth customer.
The company received national backlash in 2025 when it partnered with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to operate deportation flights. Protests erupted at airports in 26 cities — including Daytona Beach, Sarasota, Fort Lauderdale, and Lakeland, which Avelo calls its "Central Florida base." Critics called the flights inhumane and carried out without due process.
Avelo announced in January it was ending the deportation flights.
More airlines adding Florida flights
Several familiar names are also increasing their Florida presence, including:
- Allegiant Air is adding nine new nonstop routes starting next February.
- American Airlines has resumed Miami-Caracas flights after two disastrous earthquakes damaged the airport there.
- Breeze Airlines is adding six more flights connecting Florida airports to Atlantic City, Pittsburgh, Cancun, and St. Thomas.
- Delta Air Lines recently added a new nonstop flight between Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) near Fort Myers and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
- Frontier Airlines added daily service between Detroit and both Fort Lauderdale and Orlando in July, with at least nine more flights to Orlando and to cities such as Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Memphis, Nashville, and more.
- JetBlue Airways is drastically increasing its service at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, dropping service and airports elsewhere to do so.
- Southwest Airlines is beefing up its Florida presence with a record number of departures at Orlando International Airport starting next March.
C. A. Bridges is a journalist for the USA TODAY Network-Florida's service journalism Connect team. You can get all of Florida’s best content directly in your inbox each weekday by signing up for the free newsletter, Florida TODAY.
This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Avelo Airlines extends Florida airports' flights. Fares start at $42
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