Year-old startup Breeze Airways is heading toward the summer season with plans to nearly double its route network, offer its first long-distance flights and more than double its fleet by year end.
The ambitious newcomer is adding 35 new routes while adding ten more cities to its network as it starts to deploy its permanent fleet of A220-300 planes to eventually replace the leased Embraer E190s and E195s it started out with.
While up to now Breeze has concentrated on short-haul non-stops between unserved city pairs, the A220s, arriving at a rate of one a month, give it the ability to extend the 'serve the unserved' idea to more distant pairs with its first trans-continental routes, flying from Providence to Los Angeles, Syracuse to Las Vegas and Charleston to San Francisco. San Francisco will also get a shorter-haul route as Breeze becomes the only airline to serve San Bernardino.
The long-distance service, which the airline says will eventually lead to international routes, differentiates it from last year's other startups, Avelo and Aha!, both of which also concentrate on smaller routes, but have no long-distance plans.
The other new cities added include Las Vegas, Nashville and Jacksonville. New routes are also added to existing cities including Hartford and Charleston. By year end, the fleet will have grown from 13 to 30 planes on 77 routes from 28 cities.
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