Breeze Airways is a fast-growing operator. Given its young age and pretty small base, that’s unsurprising. According to its schedule submission to Cirium Diio, it plans 4,755 round-trip flights in September, which will vary from 62 to 209 daily. Naturally, Tuesday (with lower demand, traffic, fares, and yields) is the least-served day by far.
Compared to a year ago, September activity has risen by nearly two-thirds (+65%). While not a like-for-like comparison, Avelo’s flights have fallen year-on-year (-1%). However, that’s nowhere near as much as the hugely troubled Spirit (-24%), which has entered bankruptcy protection for the second time in a year and has revealed that it’ll cease flying to 11 more US cities.
Breeze Has Started These 10 Routes In 4 Days
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Unlike some carriers, including Spirit, Breeze has a strong focus on routes that either have never been served or were unserved when it launched them. Its relatively low-capacity equipment, consisting of 137-seat Airbus A220-300s and 108-seat Embraer E190s, helps with this. Its A220s combine a decent enough size with relatively strong economics for the size, both of which help in thin markets.
Breeze has not previously served six of the ten routes that launched between September 2 and 5. Five of these have never been flown by any carrier before. They include Raleigh/Durham—which has become Breeze’s second most-served airport—to Ogdensburg, next to the Canadian border. The exception is Memphis to Pensacola, which last had nonstop service 13 years ago, before Delta closed its Memphis hub that was inherited from Northwest.
Start Date
Route
Breeze’s Operations (September Only)*
Has Any Airline Served It Before?**
September 2
Raleigh/Durham-Ogdensburg
Three weekly A220-300
No
September 3
Akron/Canton-Daytona Beach
Two weekly A220-300
No
September 3
Westchester-Jacksonville
Two weekly A220-300
Yes (Breeze between 2022-2024)
September 4
Akron/Canton-Jacksonville
Two weekly A220-300
No
September 4
New Orleans-Myrtle Beach
Two weekly E190
No
September 4
Northwest Arkansas-Pensacola
Two weekly A220-300/E190
No
September 5
Akron/Canton-West Palm Beach
Two weekly A220-300
Yes (Breeze between 2022-2024)
September 5
New Orleans-Savannah
Two weekly E190
Yes (Breeze between 2022-2023)
September 5
Memphis-Pensacola
Two weekly E190
Yes (most recently Delta in 2012, replacing Northwest)
September 5
Richmond-West Palm Beach
Two weekly A220-300
Yes (Breeze briefly in 2022)
* Things might be different in other months
** Since 1990, per the US DOT
Breeze Has Served Akron/Canton For Over 4 Years
The carrier has flown to the Ohio airport, which is situated approximately 50 miles (80 km) by land from Cleveland, since June 2021. It was one of its very first airports. Between then and September 2025, Cirium Diio data shows that Akron/Canton has had 16 nonstop routes. Until Breeze arrived, the US DOT data indicates that 11 of them had never been served.
Breeze has 35 weekly departures from Akron/Canton in September 2025, which is up from 17 in the same month last year. It is now its ninth most-served airport. It currently has 12 routes: Charleston, Daytona Beach, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Las Vegas, Myrtle Beach, Norfolk, Orlando, Raleigh/Durham, Sarasota, Tampa, and West Palm Beach. More will begin later this year.
Despite the extensive network, its low frequencies mean it only has 31% of Akron/Canton’s September flights, which means it just about ranks first. However, with higher-capacity jets, Breeze’s share of seats for sale jumps to 43% of the total, nearly double the level of the second-ranked Allegiant (23%).
Hang On: Northwest Arkansas-Pensacola?
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This route, which covers 499 nautical miles (924 km) each way, has never been served. That isn’t surprising: the existing market is tiny. According to US DOT data, there were only 119 weekly round-trip passengers between April 2024 and May 2025 (17 daily). Most people flew Delta and changed flights in Atlanta.
Of course, Breeze will easily increase the leisure-driven traffic from nonstop flights and relatively low fares, although it appears to be less good at promotional activities.
With two weekly E190 flights, it’ll have 432 round-trip seats for sale. If it wants, say, an 80% load factor, it’d need to fill 346 weekly passengers and grow the market by 3x. Many budget airlines are used to that level of stimulation, although it does not mean a route will succeed.
Photo: Embraer
Stock Code
ERJ
Business Type
Planemaker
Date Founded
August 19, 1969
CEO
Francisco Gomes Neto
