Breeze Airways retires last Embraer 190, fleet now all Airbus A220
Breeze Airways has retired its final Embraer 190, ending a four-year period of mixed operations and leaving the carrier with an all-Airbus A220-300 fleet.
Embraer E190/E195Airbus A220 (C Series)
Breeze Airways flew its last Embraer 190 in commercial service on 7 September, leaving it with a single type: the Airbus A220-300.
The final jet, registration N120BZ, landed at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport at 17:55 local time after flight MX320 from Orlando. It was 19 years old, and the last active E190 in the fleet after N128BZ was removed on 9 August.
That ends a transition that began nearly six years earlier, and four years of flying both the Embraer and the A220.
Breeze was founded in 2018 by aviation entrepreneur David Neeleman as Moxy Airways. A trademark dispute with Marriott's Moxy hotel chain pushed the project to the Breeze Airways name.
The airline's model is point-to-point routes between small and medium-sized cities, skipping congested connecting hubs, a segment it judged the big network carriers underserved. That has not changed. According to the airline, roughly 90% of its routes face no direct competition.
COVID-19 disrupted the original launch plans in early 2020, when the company had no active operations and no aircraft.
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Sources
- aviacionaldia.comBreeze Airways retira su último Embraer 190 y consolida una flota exclusiva de Airbus A220