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Breeze Airways is set to make a handful of temporary cuts to its network next month, suspending four routes to and from Florida for most of September. Elsewhere, three more Breeze routes will see capacity cuts next month, although all will at least continue to operate to some degree. Two of these are in Florida, highlighting the highly seasonal nature of this leisure market.
That said, Breeze is set to operate many more flights next month than it did in September 2025, underscoring ongoing fleet growth and an adaptable capacity-deployment strategy. The former has also made the Embraer E190 nearly obsolete in scheduled operations, with the Airbus A220-300 dominating.
Four Temporary Suspensions (Plus One Longer-Term Hiatus) & Three Capacity Cuts
AeroRoutes reported earlier this week that Breeze will temporarily suspend four of its routes to and from Florida in September. Two of these serve 
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL), originating in Salisbury and Wilkes-Barre / Scranton. Both corridors are currently served twice a week and will be put on hold from September 2 to October 2.
Breeze’s September Reductions | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Origin | Destination | Reduction | Duration |
Fort Lauderdale | Akron/Canton | Two flights a week to one | September 5 to October 2 |
Orlando | Madison | Three flights a week to two | September 6 to 28 |
Provo | Orange County | 18 flights a week to 17 | September 6 to October 2 |
This will also apply to Breeze Airways’ route from Fort Myers to Albany. Elsewhere in Florida, the carrier’s weekly flights from Orlando to Portsmouth will cease from September 5 to October 2. Meanwhile, Charleston to Cancun will see a longer hiatus (until December 19), while the routes detailed in the table above will see capacity reductions next month.
Simple Flying has reached out to Breeze for further information on these suspensions, but was unable to recieve an immediate response.
Start Dates & Load Factors
According to historical scheduling data made available by Cirium, an aviation analytics company, the two Fort Lauderdale route that Breeze Airways is set to temporarily suspend next month are relatively new. Indeed, its twice-weekly services from Fort Lauderdale to Salisbury and Wilkes-Barre / Scranton both only started in July. As such, they don’t yet have load factor data.
This is not the case, however, for the other two suspended routes. Indeed, Breeze has been flying from Fort Myers to Albany since December of last year. Between then and May 2026, the most recent month for which Cirium has such data, the airline averaged a 70.45% load factor on this route. This equated to a grand total of 4,922 of 6,987 seats filled across 51 rotations.
Elsewhere, the carrier’s route from Orlando to Portsmouth is even older, launched in October 2024. In the 12 months to May 2026, Breeze Airways managed an average load factor of 67.5% on this corridor. While not disastrously low, this average still falls about 11% short of its average load factor across all flights in the 12 months to May 2026, which clocked in at 78.51%.
Breeze Is Still Doing A Lot More Flying This September Than Last Time Around
It is important to note that, even though Breeze is making capacity cuts and temporarily suspending certain routes next month, this does not mean it is operating fewer flights overall. Indeed, these reductions are comfortably outweighed by its fleet and network growth, with Cirium showing that it will be operating 6,823 flights in September 2026, compared to 4,755 during the same month in 2025.
This represents a 43.5% increase in flights operated, and its seat capacity is up by an even greater margin of 46.3%. A key reason for this is the fact that its smaller Embraer E190s are being increasingly replaced on Breeze’s scheduled flights by its larger Airbus A220-300s, which also have the benefit of a premium cabin. In fact, next month, the E190 is only set to operate eight of Breeze’s scheduled flights.
