Despite it being less than two years since Breeze Airways’ first commercial flight took off, the airline has 118 non-stop routes planned in Q2 (April-June). These include 22 announced in mid-February, which will see it fly to Portland, Maine for the first time. The airport is one of 35 to welcome the regional carrier, whose […]
February 16, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Breeze began operating out of Cincinnati on 8 February by inaugurating flights to Charleston in South Carolina and San Francisco in California. Both routes are being maintained 2-weekly, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with the A220-300 aircraft. Breeze competes directly against Allegiant on the 800-kilometre service to Charleston, while it is the sole operator on the […]
February 13, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Analysis of Cirium schedule data for August 2019 and August 2022 reveals that while scheduled seat capacity across over 650 US airports in 2022 is currently expected to be at least 4% lower than in 2019, the number of non-stop routes being offered has actually risen during that period by 3.2%, up from 7,993 to […]
June 13, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Air travel demand in the US during the last week was relatively stable at around 90% of the level seen during the same period in 2019. Given that capacity levels appear to also be at around 90%, this suggests that airline load factors are comparable with what they were back in 2019. Air Service One […]
April 4, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Analysis of Cirium data for scheduled air services from US airports in February 2022 (and pre-pandemic February 2020) shows that while the number of weekly departures from US airports is still down 13% compared with two years ago, seat capacity is down only 6%. Most impressively, the number of non-stop routes on offer from over […]
February 4, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
You wait years for a significant new airline to launch operations in the US and then two come along in quick succession. First it was Avelo, with its network of leisure oriented routes from Hollywood Burbank Airport and now we have Breeze Airways (IATA code MX, last used by Mexicana), the latest endeavour from serial […]
June 2, 2021 | Airlines, North America