If you’re struggling to keep up with all the new places that Breeze Airways is flying to, you’re not alone. The carrier’s eye-catching blue Airbus A220-300s are becoming omnipresent at airports large and small across the US. This year alone, Breeze has announced 14 new additions coming to its network later this year, and started flying on six new routes, including its first international destinations.

But the Utah-based carrier isn’t stopping there. Aviation blogger Ishrion Aviation has given early notice of 12 new routes that Breeze plans to add later this year. These will have a strong focus on the US Southeast, including adding two new cities to the network, continued expansion at its fastest-growing base, as well as increased intra-Florida flying. It all serves to further cement Breeze Airways as the fastest growing carrier in the US.

Twelve New Routes With A Southeast Focus

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To be clear, these new routes have yet to be formally announced by Breeze. But the post by Ishrion Aviation is a very reliable source, as they have a long history of delivering the first coverage and scoops on new airline routes. Most recently, they announced Breeze’s last big expansion a day before the airline formally shared the details.

So what can we expect? We’re looking at 12 new routes centered around three cities, as follows:

New routes at Raleigh–Durham International Airport are entirely predictable, as the carrier has effectively doubled its capacity at the North Carolina airport over the past year. It’s the expansion at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport that is most eye-catching, as Breeze joins other budget airlines looking to fill the vacuum left by the retreat of Spirit Airlines. But look a little closer, and you’ll also see that Florida’s state capital is a new city being added to the Breeze network.

Tally-Ho To Tallahassee

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Given that it serves the capital of one of the most populous states in the US, Tallahassee International Airport has surprisingly limited air service. It processed less than a million passengers last year, and has routes to just five destinations, all of them hubs of the US legacy carriers (ATL, CLT, DCA, DFW, MIA). That’s good news for Delta Air Lines, which acts as the primary connector for TLH with up to eight daily Boeing 717 flights, but bad news for Tallahassee residents, who have limited travel choices.

The airport has sought to change the status quo, and just today announced that city commissioners have unanimously approved a $10 million airport incentive program that is designed to boost the profile of the airport and attract more airlines. Speaking ahead of the official announcement, TLH Airport Director David Pollard expressed confidence that the incentives could change the airport’s fortunes:

“If we get this tool in the toolbox related to our incentive program, I would say we’re very close to landing an additional carrier or two.”

Turns out he was right. Breeze will be swooping in to TLH from its bases at RDU and FLL, adding two new connections to help break the legacy carrier stranglehold. The intra-Florida route is not entirely new, as Silver Airways flew it for many years, and JetBlue tried (unsuccessfully) to make a go of it back in 2024. It will be interesting to see whether Breeze can have better success.

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A Second New City And Continued Growth At RDU And FLL

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Breeze also plans on adding a second new city to its network in the form of Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, with two new routes connecting it to Raleigh and Fort Lauderdale. While not quite as under-served as Tallahassee, Birmingham is still a relatively small facility with barely 3 million annual passengers, and it likely has pent-up demand for new nonstops. This will be Breeze’s second airport in Alabama, following the four routes it has from Huntsville.

Beyond the new cities, the new routes also include continued expansion at Raleigh-Durham, where Breeze will shortly surpass 40 different routes from the Research Triangle. RDU sits in a high-income, fast-growing region, and in addition to the leisure travel that makes up the bulk of Breeze’s demand, it also has a strong mix of education travel (multiple large universities), and business travel (large tech/biotech industry). As a result, the airport is proving to provide a perfect combination of strong year-round demand with underserved nonstops for Breeze.

Then perhaps the standout expansion is at FLL, where Breeze plans to add eight new routes, with three of those being intra-Florida. Thus far in its relatively short lifespan, Breeze has paid less attention to FLL than other leisure-focused carriers do, concentrating more on other destinations in the Sunshine state. However, the continued challenges for Spirit have opened up opportunities for competitors, and this new expansion, which will more than double Breeze’s routes at the facility, could signal an increase in focus on South Florida’s low-cost hub.