Avelo probably won’t be in Worcester anytime soon. New Haven is one of two main hubs and they want to keep it that way. The only thing they would consider would be a new haven to worcester flight which would most likely not happen. It will be a very long time until there would be consideration from Worcester and other points with them. They want to be safe for now because costly mistakes will make the airline lose money quick.
For Breeze, I still think they’ll wait. Breeze and avelo are waiting to expand to other airports and see how their flights at the main hubs will be before expanding. Although a Worcester to Florida flight would be a no brainer, it’s different when a well known airline would offer the flight versus a startup airline not many people know about. I think that’s why Massport has been targeting spirit/frontier instead of one of them. Since spirit and frontier are known airlines, people would fly them to popular destinations whereas not many people would want to chance a new airline not knowing enough about it.
I’m not saying it would fail if they did, a route like Worcester to West Palm Beach for example would be more likely to have success from the start if spirit or JetBlue did it versus breeze or avelo since almost everyone knows about spirit and JetBlue. I feel like what massport should do is target spirit/frontier to Myrtle Beach since that was averaging 80%+ before it was suspended back in 2012, delta flight to Atlanta using delta connection or their regular delta aircraft.
There’s so much that delta can do with this and if you look up connecting airports for Delta’s flights when traveling South or to the southwest, the three are JFK, LGA, and Atlanta. With Atlanta being delta’s main hub this would be a no brainer for a early morning flight. Target a flight to Orlando as well as another Florida destination that isn’t Orlando. West Palm Beach, Fort Myers, Tampa, Miami. Any of those destinations would work and be successful especially if JetBlue Delta or Spirit offered it (American doesn’t offer a lot of direct flights to leisure destinations and require a connection typically)
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I fly a LOT and using ORH is a major relief/convenience/ stress reducer/ time saver. Its not even close,
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I typically don’t like to use connecting flights, but with not checking luggage, using Clear and PreCheck that cuts down a lot of the connecting risks (in non winter storm times, anyway). But, given the convenience and the timing I’m flying to California direct fromLogan and returning via JFK to ORH. Returns to both BOS and ORH were after 11pm, so coming back to ORH with a 5 minute drive home is a no brained.
It was seamless and landed about the same time that the JetBlue direct flight would have landed in Boston. I had a 5 minute drive home instead of an hour at 11:30 PM
Having these flights at ORH is a boon to people in the area that travel.