Avelo Airlines, Inc.

Avelo Airlines, Inc., doing business as Avelo Airlines, is a for-profit commercial airline based in Houston, Texas, that provides domestic charter air transportation services to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor operating on full-and-open delivery orders with no set-aside designation. The company holds two indefinite delivery contracts awarded by the U.S. Air Force's Air Mobility Command and the United States Transportation Command and operates as an FAA Part 121 approved carrier delivering all services directly without subcontractors.

Avelo Airlines' federal footprint is heavily concentrated in Air Mobility Command domestic charter work. The company has received forty-five awards across a two-year window (2025–2026), representing $2.5 million in combined potential value, with 97 percent of the potential value obligated. All forty-five awards are prime contracts issued by a single customer agency: the Department of the Air Force Air Mobility Command. The vendor's award portfolio splits between nonscheduled chartered passenger air transportation (41 awards) and nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation (4 awards), with PSC coding aligned to passenger and air charter categories.

Avelo Airlines holds two parent vehicles anchoring its federal work. The primary IDC is Indefinite Delivery Contract HTC71125DCC37, awarded by the United States Transportation Command on June 1, 2025, for domestic air cargo and passenger charter services with an $1,500 ceiling and a performance period through September 30, 2028. Against this vehicle, forty task orders have been placed carrying $2.5 million in combined potential value. The second vehicle is the Air Mobility Command civil reserve air fleet IDC awarded on March 17, 2025, with an $18,000 ceiling and a performance period through September 30, 2030, against which three task orders carry $6,000 in combined potential value. The second vehicle was originally solicited as a 100 percent Small Business Set-Aside focused on specialized air charter transportation, including human remains transport and escorts in support of Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.

Recent delivery orders represent domestic charter operations at military installations nationwide, ranging from $3,000 to $98,150 in ceiling value and all structured as firm fixed-price awards without set-aside designation. Representative awards include an $89,500 domestic charter delivery order to El Paso, Texas, dated April 5, 2026; a $118,000 domestic charter order to Lakeland, Florida, dated January 31, 2026; and a $93,000 domestic charter order to El Paso, Texas, dated September 28, 2025. All named delivery orders carry March or June 2025 ultimate completion dates matching their award dates, reflecting the time-specific nature of individual charter missions.

Activity has been concentrated in 2025, with thirty-nine awards placed that year against six in the first quarter of 2026. No recompete cliff information is present in the source data. Avelo Airlines competes in the full-and-open marketplace without holding any SBA set-aside certifications; the company's second IDC vehicle was originally solicited as a small business set-aside, but the award itself carried no set-aside designation, indicating open competition at the time of award.