New Mexico's Taos Air to change operator in Winter 2019/20

Taos Air (Taos) announced plans on November 20 to commence charter flights from Taos to Hawthorne Airport, which serves Los Angeles, and Carlsbad, CA which also serves San Diego, beginning on January 9, 2020.

The new winter California services will run from January until March 29 and both destinations will be flown every Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. These new routes are in addition to Taos Air’s existing destinations of Austin Bergstrom Int'l and Dallas Love Field.

“Taos is fortunate to welcome many visitors from Southern California and we are very excited to help them make the trip quicker and easier,” said Daniel Barrone, Town of Taos Mayor. “We are so pleased Taos Air continues to grow and provide door-to-door flights for people who want to experience Taos.”

In October, Taos Air announced that it will change the operator of its flights from Ultimate Jetcharters (UE, Akron/Canton) to Advanced Air Charters (AN, Hawthorne), which is conveninently based at the Los Angeles area airport where it will...

Taos Air (Taos) has cancelled its plans to open summer-season routes for 2019 and will, for now, focus only on its original raison d'être, scheduled winter-season flights for inbound ski tourists flocking to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Taos News has reported.

The virtual carrier, owned by Taos Ski Valley Inc., operates between Taos in New Mexico and both Dallas Love Field and Austin Bergstrom Int'l in Texas. It uses a single Do328-300 operated by Ultimate Jetcharters (UE, Akron/Canton). Services began in December 2018.

In April 2019, it obtained approval to begin summer services and was due to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in marketing support from New Mexico local municipalities. The airline cited a lack of aircraft and pilots for what had been scheduled as three flights per week to each of the Texan airports and said it would refund tickets already paid for.

"It turned out that our operator [Ultimate Jetcharters] couldn't work out the service for the summer" due to the "availability of...