{"id":216455,"date":"2025-06-23T13:11:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/north-texas-is-getting-a-new-commercial-airport-heres-what-airline-is-in-talks-to-fly-out-of-it"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:11:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:11:41","slug":"north-texas-is-getting-a-new-commercial-airport-heres-what-airline-is-in-talks-to-fly-out-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/north-texas-is-getting-a-new-commercial-airport-heres-what-airline-is-in-talks-to-fly-out-of-it","title":{"rendered":"North Texas is getting a new commercial airport \u2014 here\u2019s what airline is in talks to fly out of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/north-texas-is-getting-a-new-commercial-airport-heres-what-airline-is-in-talks-to-fly-out-of-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MCKINNEY, Texas \u2014 Ultra-low-cost carrier Avelo Airlines is in talks with McKinney to be among the first to fly commercial passengers following the city\u2019s airport controversial expansion, a letter from the Texas Attorney General\u2019s Office indicated.<\/p>\n<p>Houston-based Avelo already flies from DFW International Airport to its hub in New Haven, Connecticut, but its self-described strategy is to fly into smaller and \u201cmore convenient\u201d airports.<\/p>\n<p>McKinney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/news\/local\/collin-county\/mckinney-city-council-accepts-grant-approves-contract-for-airport-improvements\/287-393000b8-7be3-4790-ae19-c6490712ba56\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plans to break ground<\/a> on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/news\/local\/collin-county\/north-texas-conservation-group-challenges-mckinney-national-airport-expansion\/287-3ba51aa9-e2c1-4772-a212-6f61610b2566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">controversial expansion<\/a> to its airport this summer, with the goal of commercial flights taking off by the end of next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MCKINNEY, Texas \u2014 Ultra-low-cost carrier Avelo Airlines is in talks with McKinney to be among the first to fly commercial passengers following the city\u2019s airport controversial expansion, a letter from the Texas Attorney General\u2019s Office indicated. Houston-based Avelo already flies from DFW International Airport to its hub in New Haven, Connecticut, but its self-described strategy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}