With jet fuel prices not budging from highs due to the war with Iran, almost every major and low-cost airline has had to adjust its flying schedule to weed out low-traffic routes.
Budget carrier Norse Atlantic Airways has cut the Los Angeles market from its flying network and is now flying to Europe only from East Coast of the U.S. European airlines like Ryanair and EasyJet have similarly had to cut multiple routes to smaller European cities.
Florida-based Spirit Airlines famously was dealt the final blow by the price of jet fuel and shut down operations entirely at the start of May while Mexican low-cost airline Magnicharters filed for bankruptcy protection after what was initially supposed to be a temporary suspension of flights in April.
Avelo cuts all flights leaving on Tuesday from summer 2026 schedule
Launched out of Houston in 2021, fellow low-cost airline Avelo Airlines has now confirmed that it will no longer fly on Tuesdays as part of its cost-cutting measures in the current market.
This day of the week is typically the quietest one in the week for booking flights and the airline said that it will utilize its fleet of 15 Boeing 737 planes to fly the routes booked by the largest numbers of passengers.
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While going through a period of rapid expansion with a business model of flying into smaller cities overlooked by most mainstream airlines, Avelo had found itself caught up in a wave of bad publicity throughout 2025 over its choice to run deportation flights for the Trump administration.
Coupled with a tougher market for low-cost airlines, Avelo was forced to massively consolidate its network by cutting more than 30% of its flying schedule and exiting airports like Phoenix Mesa Gateway (AZA), Raleigh-Durham (RDU), and Wilmington (ILM) even before the current jet fuel crisis.
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The airline has also exited the West Coast market entirely by closing down bases in Burbank Airport, Las Vegas and Sonoma County.
“These changes enable Avelo to focus on sustainably scaling five core bases in 2026 and to prepare the company for growth in the coming years, facilitated by the company’s recent order for up to 100 Embraer 195-E2 aircraft [the airline is in the process of swapping out its fleet],” Avelo said in a statement at the time.
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The Tuesday flight cancelations are expected to last until August at which point Avelo may or may not add some routes to its schedule.
The move stands out because airlines will typically cut low-profit routes instead of entire flying days but also marks an industry trend in that almost every carrier is feeling pressure to trim costs however possible.
Salt Lake City-based competitor Breeze Airways has also recently cut nine flights it initially hoped to fly in 2026 while Dallas-based Frontier Airlines has expanded service into cities hit by Spirit’s collapse but also faces similar pressures of serving a market that flies to cities with a smaller population.
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