![]() ![]() Neeleman calls the plane, which Delta and JetBlue also fly, a game-changer and the most technologically advanced commercial plane on the market. The airline has 80 new A220s on order, 13 of which are arriving this year. 'The plane is freakin' amazing': Breeze CEO on airline's new, bigger A220 jetsīreeze's long-planned expansion is tied to the arrival of new planes with longer range, Airbus A220s. And a handful of the new routes, including Los Angeles-Providence, are seasonal. ![]() Of the 35 new routes, just three have nonstop service on other airlines, most notably Nashville-Hartford, which Southwest Airlines serves.Īs it does now, Breeze will only offer flights a few days a week on most of the routes instead of daily service like major airlines, meaning passengers must have flexible travel dates. "Those are all great cities but there's no nonstop service to Las Vegas,'' he said. He cited Syracuse Jacksonville Fort Myers, Florida and Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia, which are getting new flights to Las Vegas. "We generally always – 95% of the time – try and find routes where there's people flying or that people would fly if the fares were better and the service was more convenient,'' Breeze founder and CEO David Neeleman said in an interview. Like fellow newcomer Avelo Airlines and budget airline pioneer Allegiant, Breeze zeroes in on nonstop routes other airlines don't serve. ![]() The airline will also become the first commercial airline to fly out of San Bernardino International Airport, east of Los Angeles. The additions include the airline's first long flights, including Providence, Rhode Island-Los Angeles, Syracuse, New York-Las Vegas and Charleston-San Francisco. By the end of the year, the airline's fleet will more than double, from 13 planes to 30. The airline will offer 77 routes in 28 cities in 18 states when all the new flights are in place by early August. In all, Breeze is adding 35 routes between May and August, nearly doubling its flight lineup. In a major expansion, the airline on Tuesday said it is adding flights in 10 new cities including Las Vegas Los Angeles San Francisco Nashville, Tennessee and Jacksonville, Florida, and boosting service in others, including Charleston and Hartford, Connecticut. The airline's biggest airport in terms of daily flights: Charleston, South Carolina.īreeze's route map is about to change dramatically, with the addition of its first destinations in the western U.S. The startup from the founder of JetBlue only offers flights in pockets of the country, mostly serving smaller airports with short, infrequent flights. Travelers hoping to check out new airline Breeze Airways have had limited options since the budget airline debuted last year. Watch Video: Influencer shows how she travels the world while legally blind ![]()
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