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

California's Advanced Air Charters expands to Mammoth Lakes

Advanced Air (AN, Hawthorne) has announced three new seasonal routes from California's coastal cities to Mammoth Lakes, CA, as it hopes to boost its business with seasonal winter traffic.

The airline plans to operate 5x weekly from Burbank, and 4x weekly each from Carlsbad, CA and Hawthorne. Services will commence on December 17, 2020, and continue through April 2021. Advanced Air Charters will use its only Do328-300, N192TS (msn 3214), for the flights. Occasionally, and subject to demand, the carrier may also operate the routes using a Beech (twin turboprop) King Air 350.

Advanced Air Charters is set to be one of two airlines serving Mammoth Lakes besides United Airlines (UA, Chicago O'Hare), which will also start seasonal flying to the city on December 17 from Los Angeles Int'l, Denver Int'l, and San Francisco, CA. All three routes are operated by SkyWest Airlines using CRJ700 regional jets.

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US' Taos Air launches LA and San Diego charter flights

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 (AN, Hawthorne), which is conveninently based at the Los Angeles area airport where it will...

New Mexico's Taos Air axes summer plans, focuses on winter

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...