Advanced Air

In most EAS contracts, one of the stipulations is that the airline has to have baggage agreements or codeshares with other major airlines.

We took a ride on Advanced Air’s inaugural flights to Crescent City, which also happens to be the longest Dornier328Jet flight in the United States.

Advanced Air announces its 12th and 13th destinations, including the longest Dornier 328Jet route in the United States at over 600 miles.

Hawthorne, California-based airline Advanced Airlines has just been awarded its third Essential Air Service contract. While three may not seem like a lot compared to the mass number of contracts that carriers like SkyWest have, it is still growth for an airline that only a few years ago had only a single EAS community and […]

Hawthorne, Calif.-based Advanced Air has had quite the route change up in the past couple of months and has added routes to some communities that haven’t been part of the national air system in over ten years. First up was Gallup, N.M., where the airline introduced service back in August 2022 with flights to Phoenix’s […]

Gallup, a city located along Interstate I-40 in western New Mexico with a population of just under 21,000 residents will finally be getting commercial air service after 12-years without one. The last airline to serve the community was Great Lakes Airlines, they offered flights to both Denver and Phoenix with an intermediate stop in Farmington, […]

As the winter sports season draws to a close, airlines are ending or getting ready for flights that operate to winter sports-friendly destinations. Advanced Air operates winter seasonal flights to two of these destinations — Taos, N.M., and Mammoth Lakes, Calif. But with a relative lack of flights on the horizon for the summer, Advanced […]

If you have read my articles in the past, then you know I love out-of-the-way airports, airlines, and aircraft and would do almost anything to adventure to a new city or fly on a unique or rare aircraft type. So in this new series, which I will be calling the “Unique Connection Series” I will […]

Hawthorne, Calif. based-Advanced Air has won the Essential Air Service contract for its second EAS city. The contract it won, is for the community of Merced, Calif. and won the contract over local San Francisco-based Boutique Air. Advanced Air flights to the northern Californian city will begin on Jan. 1, 2022, and will be operating […]

Hawthorne, Calif.-based Advanced Air has confirmed it will begin flights to Mammoth Lakes, Calif. via Mammoth Yosemite Airport in November 2021. The airline did announce plans to fly to Mammoth Lakes last season, but those plans were put on hold on account of local restrictions put in place due to the pandemic. The newly re-announced […]