Avelo Airlines which recently announced new service to Lakeland and which has a growing presence in the Sunshine State will launch Miami flights in June. Beginning June 9, Avelo will fly Orlando-Miami once weekly. This appears to be a repositioning flight from Avelo’s Orlando base to Miami for charter flights to the Caribbean. However, the […]

From a company press release:  Breeze Airways, the U.S.’ only NLCC, or ‘Nice Low Cost Carrier,’ announced today that Fort Myers’ Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) will become the airline’s ninth base of operations nationally and third in Florida, starting October 1. Breeze’s first flight from Fort Myers was in June, 2022 and, since then, […]

Months ago, I reported that Avelo Airlines would be splitting its Orlando base with operations at Lakeland’s Linder Airport. Well actually that has not happened (yet) but at least Avelo now has announced service to Lakeland with twice weekly flights to New Haven, CT starting June 13. Even though it’s just two flights a week, […]

JetBlue’s large Fort Lauderdale focus city, once promised to rival American’s hub in nearby Miami is a casualty of the victorious DOJ lawsuit to block the JetBlue-Spirit merger. JetBlue will stop flying from Fort Lauderdale to Atlanta, Austin, Bogota, Lima, Nashville, Newburgh, New Orleans, Quito and Salt Lake City this summer. To offset this, JetBlue […]

From the Roaming Railfan, an update on Brightline’s proposed Cocoa station.

Brightline has announced a station in Stuart will be its first between West Palm Beach and Orlando. It is likely to open in 2026. “The City of Stuart is thrilled to announce that Brightline has chosen Stuart for the next station in Florida’s expanding passenger rail network,” said Stuart Mayor Becky Brunner. “This marks a […]

The Northeast Corridor is the Miami-Dade portion of the Coastal Link, which extends from Downtown Miami to the City of Aventura, along the existing Florida East Coast (FEC) railway tracks, approximately 13.5 miles. There it will connect with the Broward County rail system. It will connect with Metromover, Metrorail and TriRail at MiamiCentral station. It […]

As most of you have no doubt read a judge earlier this week blocked the JetBlue-Spirit merger from moving forward. The suit filed by the Department of Justice was on antitrust grounds. From my vantage point, having seen the Obama Justice Department not oppose the Southwest-AirTran merger and then seeing air fares rise as a […]

Through the year American Airlines has generally done fewer point-to-point type flights than other legacy US carriers after the hub and spoke system really developed in earnest in the 1980’s. But oddly, AA generally had Fort Lauderdale as a strange destination in-between hub and spoke for a ten year period between 1999 and 2009. So […]