Get prepared to stretch out a little bit onboard Avelo Airlines.
The Houston-based discounter will add more-spacious seating choices, Stretch and Stretch+, to its Boeing 737s starting Sept. 3, Avelo stated Tuesday. The new choices can have between 32 inches and 36 inches of pitch in contrast to 29 inches in its commonplace economic system seats. And Stretch+ additionally contains an unoccupied center seat.
Stretch and Stretch+ seats can be found for an extra payment throughout the reserving course of, Avelo stated.
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“Stretch and Stretch+ reflects our commitment to giving travelers more choice and comfort,” Brian Davis, chief industrial officer of Avelo, stated in an announcement. “We know comfort matters and this new option offers a better experience for those who want it, without changing the value our customers expect from us.”
Avelo is the latest price range airline to add extra spacious onboard seating choices. Allegiant Air, Frontier Airlines, Spirit Airlines and Southwest Airlines are within the technique of including, or have added, extra-legroom and different onboard choices to vacationers keen to pay for extra space. Even JetBlue Airways is including home top quality.
Premium leisure journey, or vacationers who’re keen to pay for a extra premium journey expertise, has boomed because the coronavirus pandemic. And, as airline after airline spoke of a slowdown in U.S. leisure journey throughout the first quarter of 2025, additionally they spoke to the energy of premium journey.
Avelo’s new seating choices come amid controversy for the airline. In April, Avelo confirmed that it could dedicate three 737s to the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration Control and Enforcement company’s constitution program flying deportees out of the U.S. That landed Avelo within the middle of a maelstrom and prompted some calls to boycott the airline.
The airline has not stated whether or not the so-called “ICE Air” flights have affected demand for its industrial passenger enterprise.
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But issues are altering at Avelo. In March, the airline ended its “hassle-free travel” promise with the addition of change and cancellation charges. That transfer got here similtaneously Avelo confirmed it’s growing a brand new loyalty program and co-branded bank card.
Loyalty applications and related bank cards are sometimes large money-makers for airways.
And Avelo continues to develop as properly.
The carrier opened new bases at Concord-Padgett Regional Airport (USA) and Wilmington International Airport (ILM) in North Carolina in March and April, respectively. And it plans to add three new airports — New York’s Long Island MacArthur Airport (ISP), Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford International Airport (GRR) close to Grand Rapids, and Lynden Pindling International Airport (NAS) in Nassau, Bahamas — to its map in May and June.
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