Breeze Airways is rising its footprint in North Carolina, including a brand new pin to its increasing route map.
The Salt Lake Metropolis-based low-cost provider on Thursday introduced it should launch nonstop service from a brand new airport within the Tar Heel State: Piedmont Triad Worldwide Airport (GSO), which serves the Greensboro and Winston-Salem space.
Breeze’s Greensboro service will take flight June 6, proper because the summer time journey season kicks into full swing.
Breeze’s new Greensboro flights
From the outset, the provider will serve the Piedmont Triad area with two nonstop locations:
- GSO to Orlando Worldwide Airport (MCO) with two weekly round-trip flights on Mondays and Fridays.
- GSO to Hartford’s Bradley Worldwide Airport (BDL), additionally with two weekly spherical journeys on Mondays and Fridays. This might be a seasonal route, working throughout the summer time months.
Each routes will launch June 6.
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Doubling down on North Carolina
Including Greensboro offers Breeze, which launched service in 2021, its 69th metropolis nationwide.
It is also simply the most recent growth for the startup provider in central North Carolina: Breeze has been within the midst of a progress spurt at Raleigh-Durham Worldwide Airport (RDU), which sits about 80 miles east of GSO.
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Through the first half of 2025, Breeze was set to develop its whole seats flown out of RDU by 123% versus the identical interval final 12 months, in accordance with knowledge from aviation analytics agency Cirium.
“We proceed to see large progress within the Mid-Atlantic area and are excited to welcome Piedmont Triad Worldwide Airport (GSO) to our rising listing of cities that Breeze serves within the area,” Lukas Johnson, Breeze’s chief business officer, mentioned in a press release Thursday.
With Breeze’s two routes out of Greensboro, the provider will serve Orlando, at all times a preferred trip vacation spot, and Hartford, the place it already has a large footprint.
The addition of Breeze will give GSO its fifth business airline. American Airways, Delta Air Strains, United Airways and Allegiant Air at present serve the airport.
Breeze is not going to face direct competitors on both of its GSO routes, although Allegiant does fly nonstop from GSO to Orlando’s secondary airport, Orlando Sanford Worldwide Airport (SFB).
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Bolstering Orlando flights
Along with including a brand new metropolis Thursday, Breeze additionally introduced it’s going to double its twice-weekly Orlando service from two East Coast airports for the summer time season.
Beginning June 4, Breeze will fly 4 weekly spherical journeys (as a substitute of two) between MCO and Maine’s Portland Worldwide Jetport (PWM). Flights will run on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
As for its MCO service to Lancaster Airport (LNS) in Pennsylvania, that may run on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays starting June 6.
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