Avelo Airlines

And then Mike asks in parentheses, including food, question mark.

Correct me if I'm wrong, Mike says, but now that Allegiant and Frontier have announced first class, aren't Southwest and Avello the only remaining US carriers that don't have first class and haven't announced an intention to offer one in the next year or so? Thanks for continuing Ben's legacy and exploring this business for us.

What do you think?

Well, yeah.

Yeah.

So it's Frontier, Avello, Breeze, and I know Allegiant.

Maybe someone else.

So they're starting to flex some muscle saying, hey, when slots are available at airports like DCA, LaGuardia, Newark eventually, right? Why don't we get

Ah.

So we have McKinney National Airport, which is gonna get started a little bit later this year, and one of the airlines that they're going to be using is gonna be Avelo Airlines, which you don't hear very often, but Avelo's been around for a while.

I don't think I've ever heard of it.

Mm-mm.

Yeah, it is a deal changer.

And so Devin is DJ's cousin that came with us to Dorkfest last year, and he works for Avello.

Love him.

He answered the phone.

Avello, this is Devin.

He reminds me of you so much when I met him last year.

Maybe a couple years ago.

and Frontier was set to acquire Spirit's assets at LaGuardia, and the parties argued that this would address competitive concerns across the overlap routes involving those airports.

The third prong was that entry by other ultra-low-cost carriers, so Frontier, Allegiant, Breeze, Avello, would likely replace any competition loss due to the merger, both on those routes involving a divestiture and on any other routes.

And really, if you think about the airline industry, it's kind of unique in that it's kind of key productive assets literally fly from market to market.

And so it's pretty easy in most cases for airlines to reposition their aircraft onto routes that they think will be the most profitable.

Um, but also talking of failures in America, obviously there's the fallout of Spirit still going on.

You've got Breeze leading a group with Allegiant, Frontier, and Avelo talking about, um, the Spirit slot allocation.

Uh, I know so Jet for instance, countering JetBlue, um, not to have them too much pricing power.

Um, and interestingly for myself, uh, having done lots of aircraft, um, airline valuations, the Spirit's data, uh, the attempt by Google to buy the data, which is having some hold up for around $10 million.

yeah well i mean obviously you know there are budget airlines that i'm sure people are already aware of that spirit's out of business Spear is out of business.

But depending on what state you live in, there's Avello, there's Allegiant.

There's those smaller airlines that usually travel.

For example, Avello travels just East Coast, along the East Coast.

I think they do a little bit of Chicago.

But just depending on where you live, there's always some type of flight that's affordable.

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For the Pittsburgh Pirates, David Cash will be at second base leading off.

Vic D'Avelio replaces Willie Stargell in left field.

Stargell aggravated a hand injury in last night's game.

Roberto Clemente in right field batting third.

Hit

hard to left.

The line shot coming in is D'Avelio,

and he takes it right off his shoot drop right by the foul line, and he robs Harrelson of a base hit.