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Avelo starts Dulles nonstops to Wilmington, NC, cancels Charlotte route

By Jeff Clabaugh

Startup Avelo Airlines has added its second nonstop destination from Dulles Airport with flights to coastal Wilmington, North Carolina, but has canceled plans for nonstops to Charlotte.

The twice weekly flights to Wilmington operate Mondays and Fridays on Boeing 737 aircraft. It is the only nonstop to Wilmington from Dulles.

The flights last 1 hour and 20 minutes, departing Dulles at 8:50 a.m. and departing Wilmington at 6:45 a.m.

A round-trip flight for a June 20 departure from Dulles starts at $139, according to its booking site.

Avelo had planned to add nonstops from Dulles to Charlotte this month, but it said due to low demand and poor initial bookings, the route was canceled before it began.

The airline also flies nonstop from BWI Marshall to New Haven and Wilmington, North Carolina.

Avelo entered the D.C. market last summer, when it began nonstop flights from Dulles to Tweed-New Haven Airport in Connecticut with twice weekly flights on Mondays and Fridays.

Avelo was founded in 2021 and currently flies to nearly 60 cities in 23 states and Puerto Rico, as well as the Bahamas, Jamaica, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, using its fleet of 20 Boeing 737 planes.

OpenAI and Anthropic limit new AI models to Trump-approved customers during cybersecurity review

By The Associated Press
ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Friday it is restricting the release of its new artificial intelligence model at the request of President Donald Trump’s administration, the latest in an unprecedented government vetting of AI products for cybersecurity risks. Its chief rival, Anthropic, announced hours later that the Trump administration has approved a limited release of its strongest cybersecurity model, two weeks after the U.S. Commerce Department effectively banned it. Both companies said their newest models would be available to small groups of trusted partners. OpenAI said its new AI product, called GPT-5.6 Sol, would be accessible only to customers approved by the Trump administration. “We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default,” OpenAI said in a statement. The company said it viewed the testing period as a temporary step on the “path to broader availability in the coming weeks.”
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