Advanced Air

Advanced Air is an American scheduled commuter and private charter airline based in Hawthorne, California, at the Hawthorne Municipal Airport, where it also owns a fixed base operator, Jet Center Los Angeles.

History
Advanced Air was founded in 2005 and began scheduled shuttle service in 2015. It won its first Essential Air Service contract for Silver City, New Mexico, in October 2018 and began service in January 2019. In 2021, the company received a second Essential Air Service (EAS) contract for Merced, California. In 2022, subsidized contracts through the state of New Mexico were received to serve Gallup, New Mexico from Phoenix and Las Cruces, New Mexico from Albuquerque. The Gallup service began on August 1, 2022 and Las Cruces on January 16, 2023. An additional EAS contract was received in 2023 to serve Carlsbad, New Mexico from both Albuquerque and Phoenix. This service began on November 5, 2023. A fourth EAS contract was received to serve Crescent City, California and flights began on March 17, 2024 to both Oakland and Hawthorne, California.

In the early 2020's Advanced Air offered select California shuttle routes in partnership with Surf Air. Surf Air managed the membership program while Advanced owned and operated the aircraft in the Surf Air livery. All partner flights were operated on the Pilatus PC-12. This service is now partnered between Surf Air and Southern Airways Express.

In December 2019, Advanced Air began operating two Dornier 328JETs owned by the Taos Ski Valley and flown under the name Taos Air. Advanced Air operated flights during the 2019–20 winter season from Taos, New Mexico to Austin and Dallas, Texas as well as Hawthorne and Carlsbad, California. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, service was suspended for the 2020–21 ski season but resumed for the summer months of 2021 and 2022 as well as the 2021–22 winter ski season. Service to Taos was then replaced by JSX Air beginning with the 2022-2023 ski season. Advanced Air then acquired its own Dornier 328JET and began flights to Mammoth Mountain, California, from Burbank, Hawthorne, and Carlsbad for the 2021–22 ski season.