{"id":48020,"date":"2024-07-23T14:02:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T18:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=48020"},"modified":"2024-07-23T14:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T18:02:50","slug":"avelo-to-announce-largest-expansion-in-airlines-history-at-lakeland-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/07\/23\/avelo-to-announce-largest-expansion-in-airlines-history-at-lakeland-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Avelo to announce &#8216;largest expansion&#8217; in airline&#8217;s history at Lakeland International"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Avelo Airlines is preparing to announce new routes out of Lakeland International Airport. Lakeland officials will hold a joint news conference with Avelo is announcing its &#8220;largest expansion&#8221; of commercial airline services at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to city spokesperson Kevin Cook.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"7f94a7\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"162\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/avelo-1.jpeg?resize=310%2C162&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48021 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #7f94a7; width:578px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/avelo-1.jpeg?w=310&amp;ssl=1 310w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/avelo-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C157&amp;ssl=1 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Avelo&#8217;s first plane touched down at Lakeland International Airport on June 13,\u00a0launching the first commercial airline service in more than a decade at the airport. Avelo offers flights to Tweed-New Haven Airport (HVN) twice a week on Sundays and Thursdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland&#8217;s Airport Director Kris Hallstrand told city Commissioners things were looking pretty good after a month estimated Avelo&#8217;s outbound flights leaving Lakeland were averaging 94% full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a Facebook post, Avelo Airlines\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=919878820154227&amp;set=a.579971877478258\">asked customers what new routes or destinations they would like to see added<\/a>. The city&#8217;s staff reposted on the airport page with popular responses, including Atlanta; Houston; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Wilmington, North Carolina, among Avelo&#8217;s existing destinations..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/popup.taboola.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-wp-embed is-provider-embed wp-block-embed-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"CK0DJlIbho\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/07\/17\/will-avelo-announce-expanded-flights-to-and-from-lakeland\/\">Will Avelo announce expanded flights to and from Lakeland?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Will Avelo announce expanded flights to and from Lakeland?&#8221; &#8212; \" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/07\/17\/will-avelo-announce-expanded-flights-to-and-from-lakeland\/embed\/#?secret=KTb1QjbPek#?secret=CK0DJlIbho\" data-secret=\"CK0DJlIbho\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avelo Airlines is preparing to announce new routes out of Lakeland International Airport. Lakeland officials will hold a joint news conference with Avelo is announcing its &#8220;largest expansion&#8221; of commercial&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":40081,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Avelo-Livery-Close-Up-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[9197],"class_list":["post-48020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-avelo-to-announce-largest-expansion-in-airlines-history-at-lakeland-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48022,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48020\/revisions\/48022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}