Breeze Airways is one of the fastest-growing airlines in the US. Given that it is only five years old, that is perhaps unsurprising. Since the first revenue-generating flight in 2021, the country’s Department of Transportation shows Breeze has carried over 16 million passengers. But the US’s vast aviation market means it has transported just one in every 313 passengers.

Ch-aviation shows that 88% of Breeze’s fleet consists of the 137-seat Airbus A220-300. This relatively low-capacity equipment, with good economics for the comparatively small size, is well-suited to the airline’s network approach. It seeks out thin markets that are either unserved at the time it launches flights or which have never had service before. As with any carrier, route churn is inevitable, although its more experimental nature perhaps means more services don’t work.

Breeze Has Cut 18 Routes

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Cirium Diio data was used to explore Breeze’s full schedule from January 2025 to May 2026. This was then compared to what is available from June 2026 onward. This approach identified that 18 routes, all of which were domestic, have since ended.

In the examined period to May 2026, they had 248,000 round-trip seats for sale, which was equivalent to less than 2% of Breeze’s overall capacity. This article does not discuss any route that will end in or after June.

Akron-Canton’s Longest Service Ever

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Akron-Canton has been part of Breeze’s network since June 2021. It was among the carrier’s original airports. It serves the small facility, which Cirium shows ranks 165th in the US by flights, as a lower-cost alternative to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE), which is about an hour away. Allegiant Air does the same.

In the subsequent five years, Breeze has operated 20 routes from Akron-Canton. The long link to LAX was served between May 2024 and August 2025. At 1,801 nautical miles (3,335 km) each way, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) shows it was the longest scheduled passenger service from the Ohio airport to date. It was the first time it had been served.

Only 75 round-trip flights existed, with 20,550 seats for sale. The DOT indicates that 14,270 passengers were carried, which means that it had a load factor of 69.4%. In the same period (May 2024-August 2025), the carrier’s full load, across its entire map, was 77.6%, which was not overly high. Interestingly, Akron-Canton’s load factor in those months was 79.8%.

As always, it is just one performance measure. Clearly, LAX performed poorly. It did so for the fare, too. The DOT shows that the market’s average fare (excluding taxes and add-ons) was $103 each way. That was 32% higher than for Breeze’s entire route network from Akron-Canton in the same period. The problem was, LAX flights covered 137% more distance than the airline’s typical stage length from the Ohio airport.

OK, But How Many Routes Has Breeze Announced?

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Recall that this article examined Breeze’s network between January 2025 and May 2026 and compared it to what’s available from June 2026 onward. While 18 routes have been removed, analysis shows that 34 markets will be introduced from this month onward. It thus excludes the 14 routes that began in just three days last month. Nearly twice as many links will begin as have been eliminated.

29 domestic and five international routes are coming. All the international services will operate from Tampa. It’ll lift off for Nassau on June 11, Punta Cana on July 2, San Jose (Costa Rica) on October 3, Cancun on December 16, and Montego Bay on December 19. It won’t have head-to-head competition to Nassau, San Jose, or Montego Bay. It’ll also begin flying to St. Thomas, but that is part of the US Virgin Islands and is, therefore, considered domestic.