San Antonio-Bentonville/Fayetteville: July 15. Other new Breeze flights starting in July New Orleans to and from, with start date: Bentonville/Fayetteville, Arkansas: June 17. Tampa, Florida, to and from, and service start date: You're going to go more often.'' Breeze Airways flights for summer 2021 to and from Tampa, Charleston, New Orleans and Norfolk "We're going to generate 10 times more people than we’ll ever take from anyone else,'' he said. "If you're sitting in Columbus, Ohio, and you want to go to Charleston, South Carolina, and can do it for 69 bucks then you're just going to go. The airline says 95% of its routes have no nonstop competition. He said Breeze won't be stealing from the competition on most routes because it will be the only airline with service. Like Avelo, Breeze has benefited from cheaper prices to buy or lease airplanes and lower prices for parts because of the pandemic.Īll combine to enable Breeze to fly even shorter routes with cheap tickets and make money, Neeleman said. Allegiant uses Airbus A320s with up to 186 seats, and Avelo flies 189-seat Boeing 737s. The airline is starting with 13 Embraer regional jets, 10 with 108 seats and the rest with 118 seats. Neeleman said Breeze has significantly lower costs than Allegiant and other competitors thanks to a number of factors, including smaller planes. He goes, 'Why would I fly anyone but Allegiant?' '' "I said, well would you ever fly anyone but Allegiant?'' he said. He's a regular on the airline's nonstop Appleton-Mesa flight. Neeleman recently met a loyal Allegiant passenger who lives in Appleton, Wisconsin, and has a second home in Gilbert, Arizona, closer to the small Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport than Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, which is dominated by American and Southwest. "They go into a market where five people a day are traveling between a route, and the next thing you know there's 100 people,'' he said. Meet Avelo Airlines: New US airline has $19 fares, $10 checked bags and flies out of small airports Neeleman calls Allegiant's track record of luring travelers who would otherwise drive or connect through a major airline's hub "amazing.'' (Avelo is Allegiant-esque, too, its founder the airline's former president.) 
If that sounds a lot like budget airline Allegiant, it's by design.
The airline's informal mantra: "We'll get you there twice as fast for half the price.'' for nonstop flights between small cities. airline to launch this year, joining Avelo Airlines, which debuted in late April.īreeze CEO David Neeleman, who ran airlines in South America after being ousted as JetBlue CEO more than a decade ago, said there is an untapped market in the U.S. Breeze is the second US airline to start during the pandemicīreeze will be the second U.S. The airline is not offering daily service on any routes, with four times a week the highest frequency.
Tickets went on sale last week on the airline's website and start at $39 each way on all routes. They are introductory fares, and the cheapest seats will be limited, especially given the rebound in travel and Breeze's limited flight schedule. The first flights, beginning in late May in time for Memorial Day travel are Tampa-Charleston Tampa-Louisville, Kentucky Charleston-Hartford, Connecticut Charleston-Tampa, and Charleston-Louisville.Īdditional flights will be added in June and July, giving Breeze 39 nonstop routes between 16 cities as far east as Providence, Rhode Island, and as far west as San Antonio, Texas, this summer. The airline, whose launch was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic that devastated travel, initially plans to offer flights to and from four airports: Tampa, Florida Charleston, South Carolina New Orleans and Norfolk, Virginia. Watch Video: COVID travel: CDC says fully vaccinated people can travel at low riskīreeze Airways, a new budget airline from the founder of JetBlue, took off Thursday with flights concentrated in the southeastern U.S.
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