25.02.2021 - 18:54 UTC
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is set to award a certificate of public convenience and scheduled authority to Breeze Airways (MXY, Salt Lake City), permitting the start-up to operate up to 22 aircraft.
The nascent carrier, which is backed by US-Brazilian entrepreneur David Neeleman, applied for the permit on February 7, 2020. Following a number of further clarifications in late 2020, the DOT found the airline had fulfilled all the financial, ownership, and personnel requirements to be approved for launch.
As such, the DOT will finalise the show-cause order if not objections are raised in the next 14 days.
The tentative authority does not cover charter services. Although Breeze Airways initially planned to debut on the charter market before venturing into the scheduled segment, it abandoned these plans during the COVID-19 pandemic to focus exclusively on the latter. The start-up now aims to focus on mid-sized cities that are underserved by larger US mainline carriers.
Breeze Airways has already taken delivery of its first two aircraft, an E190 dry-leased from Nordic Aviation...
05.02.2021 - 20:25 UTC
Breeze Airways (MXY, Salt Lake City) has taken delivery of its first E190, one of fifteen to be dry-leased from Nordic Aviation Capital, as it inches towards the launch of scheduled operations.
N90NA (msn 19000070) was registered in the United States on January 29, 2021. It was operated by Air Canada (AC, Montréal Trudeau) through September 2019 and subsequently stored at Tucson Int'l airport, the ch-aviation fleets history module shows. While ADS-B websites have not tracked the aircraft since then, it was spotted in late December 2020 at San José Juan Santamaría in Costa Rica in Breeze Airways' full livery and with its American registration. Its current whereabouts are unknown. Breeze Airways did not respond when asked for comment.
According to the ch-aviation fleets advanced module, Nordic Aviation Capital owns a total of 118 E190s in various variants, of which 25 are currently without an operator. Fourteen of them were previously operated by Air Canada.
In late December 2020, David Neeleman-backed Breeze Airways acquired its first...
01.10.2020 - 11:18 UTC
Breeze Airways (MXY, Salt Lake City) has abandoned plans to launch as a charter operator first before venturing into scheduled flights, and will now debut as a scheduled operator in March 2021.
"The dynamic circumstances have caused Breeze to make adjustments to its plans, including pushing out its anticipated commencement date, launching with scheduled service rather than charter services, and postponing the delivery of A220-300 aircraft until August 2021," it said in an updated application to the US Department of Transportation for a certificate of public necessity and convenience.
The start-up reiterated, however, that its underlying business strategy has not changed, despite the delay. In fact, the withdrawal of major airlines from secondary markets has opened up even more opportunities for the nascent low-cost carrier which is backed by David Neeleman. As the founder of Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras and JetBlue Airways, Neeleman holds a 35.8% stake in Breeze Aviation Group and is by far the company's largest shareholder.
According to Breeze Aviation's updated business plan, it plans to launch with...
21.08.2020 - 17:14 UTC
Breeze Airways (MXY, Salt Lake City) has abandoned plans to acquire certificate authority from defunct carrier Compass Airlines (United States of America) (CP, Minneapolis/St. Paul) and will instead pursue its own. The nascent carrier had planned to acquire Compass's scheduled interstate authority in an effort to expedite its launch.
However, in a follow-up filing to the US Department of Transportation (DOT), Breeze said only that they were withdrawing their joint application for the transfer of certificate authority without giving any explanation.
A spokesman subsequently told ch-aviation that Breeze will now pursue stand-alone approval as well as its own certificates and is still aiming to launch in 2021.
Prior to the termination of the deal, Breeze had said that it was working with Compass and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials at Compass's supervising Flight Standards District Office (FSDO) and Certificate Management Office (CMO) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Had the deal gone through, Breeze would have used Minneapolis/St. Paul, Compass's former main base, for its inaugural hub of operations.
Earlier this month, Breeze...
