Summary
- Breeze now plans six red-eye routes this summer.
- Such services have a mere 1.8% of the carrier’s June-August operation.
- Two more overnighters are due to begin in October.
Earlier this year, the fast-growing Breeze had planned three summer routes with overnight flights. However, that has now doubled to six, hardly a heady height, but notable. Do you fancy being on them?
Six red-eye routes
Examining Breeze’s entire June-August schedule using OAG data shows that overnight flights are a tiny part of its plan, with just one in 55 services being timed this way. The rise in them, while minimal, is not overly surprising.
Speaking to the carrier’s Chief Commercial Officer, Lukas Johnson, in February, he commented,
“We anticipate them doing well [as he would say]. Assuming they do, we will certainly be adding more of them [as it has done].”
Photo: Breeze
They are summarized below. While Breeze’s network-wide average June-August stage length is 800 nautical miles (1,482 km), its six overnight serves are considerably longer than this, as expected. The shortest is Denver-Providence, nearly twice as long at 1,510 nautical miles (2,796 km). All the routes will also pass various time zones, but Denver back to Providence still looks brutal.
|
Routing |
Departure time (local) |
Arrival time (local) |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Las Vegas-Syracuse |
21:44 |
05:33+1 |
Twice-weekly A220-300. All flights are overnight but operated during the day in 2022/2023. No direct competition. Last had non-stop flights in 2005 by Transmeridian |
|
Las Vegas-Fort Myers |
22:30 |
06:13+1 |
Twice-weekly A220-300. All flights are overnight but operated during the day in 2022/2023. No direct competition. Last had non-stop flights in 2019 by Frontier |
|
Los Angeles-Charleston |
22:30 |
06:15+1 |
Route restarted on May 3, 2024; four weekly A220-300. Nearly all flights are overnight (some in May and early June aren’t) but operated during the day when first served in 2022. No direct competition. Last had non-stop flights in 2023 by JetBlue |
|
Los Angeles-Providence |
22:30 |
07:16+1 |
Route resumes on June 13, 2024; three weekly A220-300. All flights are overnight but operated during the day in 2023. No direct competition. The airport pair hasn’t had non-stop flights before, at least not in 20 years |
|
Las Vegas-Akron Canton |
22:58 |
06:15+1 |
Three weekly A220-300. All flights are overnight but operated during the day in 2022/2023. No direct competition. Last had non-stop flights in 2017 by Spirit |
|
Denver-Providence |
23:59 |
06:00+1 |
Starts on May 16 and will be Breeze’s first time in Denver; twice-weekly A220-300, rising to four weekly in the peak summer. All flights are overnight. Will compete directly with Southwest (daytime flights, of course), which returns on June 8 |
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More red-eyes are coming…
Using OAG to analyze Breeze’s entire route network and schedule later in the year indicates that the following will be served in this way:
- Las Vegas-Hartford has been flown since September 2022, but only during the day. That changes in October, when some flights will be overnight, returning to Connecticut at 07:00+1
- Phoenix-Hartford has been flown since February 2023, but only during the day. Some services will be red-eyes from October, getting back at 06:00+1
What do you make of it all? Let us know in the comment section.