{"id":8239,"date":"2024-08-28T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelaffiliatewebsite.com\/mer\/connecticut-is-home-to-the-airline-industrys-newest-turf-battle\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T19:03:00","slug":"connecticut-is-home-to-the-airline-industrys-newest-turf-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelaffiliatewebsite.com\/mer\/connecticut-is-home-to-the-airline-industrys-newest-turf-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut is home to the airline industry’s newest turf battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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America’s third-smallest state by land mass is suddenly at the center of the nation’s latest airline turf war.<\/p>\n

Leading the way in this fight over Connecticut runway real estate? The U.S. airline industry’s two newest carriers: Avelo Airlines and Breeze Airways.<\/p>\n

Last month, Avelo made headlines when it announced its first-ever service<\/a> from the Nutmeg State’s biggest airport, Hartford’s Bradley International Airport (BDL), starting this fall.<\/p>\n

The new routes were notable for a few reasons.<\/p>\n

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For one, it was Avelo’s first international expansion. The list of new routes from Hartford included nonstop service to Cancun, Mexico, and Montego Bay, Jamaica \u2014 flights that begin in November.<\/p>\n

By expanding to Hartford, Avelo also broadened its Connecticut footprint beyond Tweed New Haven Airport (HVN), a tiny airport about an hour’s drive from Hartford, where Avelo is currently the only airline \u2014 and where it has based a lot of its Northeast growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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