Breeze Airways adding New Haven flights

Salt Lake City-based Breeze Airways is coming to New Haven’s Tweed Airport with nonstop flights to 10 destinations. Breeze already flies into and out of Bradley International Airport (BDL) at Hartford. Breeze says that service at Tweed New Haven Airport (airport identifier HVN) will begin on Dec. 10, with five-times a week nonstop flights to Fort Myers, and then, on Dec. 11, to Orlando and West Palm Beach also in Florida. Nonstop flights from HVN to Vero Beach will begin Dec. 13, and service to and from an additional six destinations will begin flying in February, including nonstop service to Charleston, Jacksonville, Norfolk, Raleigh-Durham, Richmond and Sarasota-Bradenton.

A Breeze Airways Airbus aircraft.Breeze also announced plans to expand its base of operations at BDL in Hartford to include HVN while continuing to grow its service from BDL, including international service, in the coming months. The carrier, which is in the final stages of securing the necessary certification to begin flying internationally, intends to begin selling service to international destinations before the end of the year.

Breeze said that its planned Northeast expansion is part of its “ongoing commitment to providing underserved markets with an affordable, yet elevated air travel alternative.” Some of the flights between New Haven and other airports will be priced as low as $49 one-way.

“Our playbook has included significant growth across the Northeast region of the U.S. due to the high population density and limited nonstop travel options,” said Lukas Johnson, Breeze Airways’ chief commercial officer. “As a result, our unique model of air service has been a game-changer for this area of the country, giving residents affordable flights from convenient airports such as Hartford, Westchester County, Providence, Stewart-Newburgh, and now, New Haven, just to name a few. I know that as more and more people experience our one-of-a-kind service and product, they will see what all the hype is about and why Breeze has grown so quickly in such a short period of time.”

Breeze operates Airbus A220-300 aircraft.