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Breeze Airways is set to cease operating its sole route out of 
Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in the US state of New Jersey. According to reporting on the matter by Ishrion Aviation on X (formerly known as Twitter), its corridor from Newark to Charleston (CRW) in West Virginia will no longer be served after January 3, 2027. The news comes as a blow to flyers in the northeast of the US.
Some commentators online have highlighted the fact that this cut could be to do with the subsidies that support Breeze Airways‘ operations in Charleston, and whether it could make the Newark flights work profitably without them. Breeze also flies to two cities in Florida from Charleston, and passengers flying in from Newark can continue onward to one of these with same-plane itineraries.
Breeze Will No Longer Fly To Newark
Breeze Airways announced back in August of 2024 that it would be adding Newark Liberty International Airport to its growing list of US domestic destinations. It began flying to Newark twice a week (on Thursdays and Sundays) in November of that year from Charleston Yeager Airport (CRW), where, as reported by the Parkersburg News & Sentinel, its operations are subsidized by the State of West Virginia.
The carrier continues to link Charleston with Newark today, with the outbound flight (MX140) leaving Charleston at 9:56 AM and landing in Newark at 11:36 AM, one hour and 40 minutes later. After a quick 40-minute turnaround, the return leg (MX217) departs Newark at 12:16 PM and reaches Charleston at 2:05 PM after one hour and 49 minutes. However, after January 3, 2027, these flights will no longer run.
Simple Flying has reached out to Breeze Airways for more information on its Newark cuts. We will update our coverage upon receiving a statement from the carrier.
The Route Actually Had A Second Leg
An unexpectedly interesting aspect of Breeze Airways’ soon-to-end flights from Newark to Charleston is the fact that passengers flying from New Jersey to West Virginia have the option of continuing onwards to Orlando International Airport (MCO) in Florida. They can do so on a one-stop basis with a single ticket and no change of plane or flight number as part of an initiative the carrier calls BreezeThru.
Indeed, after Breeze Airways flight MX217 from Newark has landed in Charleston at 2:05 PM, it then carries on to Orlando at 2:45 PM. Its arrival in the Florida resort hub is scheduled for 4:53 PM, some two hours and eight minutes later. Likewise, MX216 departs Orlando at 7:05 AM and arrives in Charleston at 9:16 AM before continuing onwards to Newark Liberty International Airport at 9:56 AM, as noted.
As such, the closure of the route from Newark to Charleston will not just be a hard one to take for Breeze Airways passengers who fly to West Virginia, but also those who have been using its one-stop services as an alternative way of getting down to Florida. According to Cirium, an aviation analytics company, Breeze Airways has only ever used the Airbus A220-300 on this one-stop route through to Orlando.
The Current State Of Breeze Airways’ Fleet & Network
Breeze Airways’ present network remains heavily focused on domestic traffic. Indeed, Cirium’s scheduling data for August of 2026 shows that it only has 37 international departures planned this month, with almost half of these (18) concentrated on one route ( Tampa to Nassau). Meanwhile, its domestic offering this August amounts to 7,989 flights: 7,863 with the A220 and 126 with the Embraer E190.
This balance reflects the changing makeup of Breeze Airways’ portfolio of commercial aircraft. According to fleet data made available by ch-aviation, the carrier currently has just seven E190s at its disposal, compared to 60 units of the A220-300 (plus 38 more on order). Seating-wise, aeroLOPA notes that the E190s can take 108 economy guests, while the A220s have 12 business and 125 economy seats.
