Breeze Airways Route Changes: 18 Flights Are Gone — Is Your City on the Losing End?

Breeze Airways quietly dropped 18 domestic routes since January 2025 — here’s the complete list of axed flights and which U.S. cities lost service entirely.

Breeze Airways eliminated 18 domestic routes between January 2025 and May 2026, affecting passengers in communities across the country as the five-year-old low-cost carrier reshapes its network ahead of its first-ever international expansion.

The discontinued routes — identified through Cirium Diio schedule data analyzed by Simple Flying — accounted for 248,000 round-trip seats, or less than 2% of Breeze’s total capacity during that period. Several of the severed city pairs had never held scheduled commercial service before Breeze’s arrival.

At the same time, the airline has announced 34 new markets from June 2026 onward — 29 domestic and five international — nearly twice as many additions as cuts.

The Full List of 18 Dropped Routes

According to Cirium Diio data, all 18 routes were domestic. The discontinuities spanned 16 months:

Source: Cirium Diio schedule data via Simple Flying. Covers January 2025–May 2026 only.

The Akron-Canton to LAX Failure, by the Numbers

No discontinued route better illustrates the structural limits of Breeze’s thin-market model than its Akron-Canton to Los Angeles International run, which operated between May 2024 and August 2025.

At 1,801 nautical miles each way, U.S. Department of Transportation data shows the service was the longest scheduled passenger route ever flown from Akron-Canton Airport — a facility that Cirium ranks 165th in the United States by total flights. It was also the first time that city pair had been served.

Breeze operated 75 round-trip flights and put 20,550 seats on sale. The DOT shows 14,270 passengers flew the route, yielding a load factor of 69.4% — well below the carrier’s 77.6% system-wide average over the same months. Akron-Canton’s own load factor across all Breeze routes in that period was 79.8%, making the LAX underperformance starker still.

Fares compounded the problem. The average one-way ticket price, excluding taxes and add-ons, was $103 — 32% above Breeze’s full network average from the Ohio airport. The route covered 137% more distance than the carrier’s typical stage length from Akron-Canton, creating a cost mismatch that the elevated fares could not overcome.

Akron-Canton has been part of Breeze’s network since June 2021 — one of its original airports. Breeze, like Allegiant Air, positions the small Ohio facility as a lower-cost alternative to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, roughly an hour away. In five years of service, the carrier has operated 20 routes from the airport.

Three LAX Routes, Same Pattern

The Akron-Canton cut was the first of three transcontinental LAX departures Breeze eventually abandoned. Huntsville, Ala., lost its Los Angeles connection in September 2025. Raleigh/Durham, N.C., followed in January 2026. Each route shared a recurring structural challenge: long stage lengths from secondary airports that stretched beyond the economics Breeze’s 137-seat Airbus A220-300 fleet could sustain at thin-market frequencies.

Westchester and Orlando Bear the Brunt

Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y., absorbed the heaviest airport-level losses in the dataset — four routes eliminated across the review period: to Sarasota (February 2025), Greenville/Spartanburg (September 2025), Daytona Beach (May 2026), and Jacksonville (May 2026).

Orlando International Airport also shed four routes: to Mobile International (January 2025), Plattsburgh (April 2025), Ogdensburg (April 2026), and Manchester, N.H. (May 2026).

The Plattsburgh withdrawal drew a public response. Plattsburgh Airport Director Chris Kreig called Breeze’s decision “unfortunate because the service was well received by the community.” Breeze had initially described its departure as a “seasonal hiatus,” though service did not resume.

Ogdensburg: Commercial Route Ends, Federal Contract Survives

The Orlando-to-Ogdensburg route that ended in April 2026 was a commercial service separate from Breeze’s Essential Air Service obligation at Ogdensburg International Airport in northern New York. The U.S. DOT awarded Breeze that federally subsidized contract, valued at just over $8.8 million, in September 2024, covering subsidized service to Washington Dulles International Airport. In March 2026, the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority voted unanimously to renew Breeze’s EAS contract. The two services operated independently.

34 New Routes Are Coming

Breeze’s cuts represent one side of a substantially larger network shift. From June 2026 onward, the airline is launching 34 new markets — nearly twice the number it is exiting.

All five of its international routes will operate from Tampa International Airport:

Breeze will face no direct competition on the Nassau, San José, or Montego Bay routes at launch. Service to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands — also departing Tampa — is classified as domestic.

About Breeze Airways

Breeze Airways launched its first revenue-generating flight on May 27, 2021. Founded by David Neeleman — who previously co-founded Morris Air, WestJet, JetBlue Airways, and Azul Linhas Aéreas — the carrier targets underserved city pairs that were either unserved or had never held scheduled commercial flights. According to U.S. DOT data, Breeze has carried more than 16 million passengers since launch, representing roughly one in every 313 domestic passengers.

According to ch-aviation data, 88% of Breeze’s fleet consists of the 137-seat Airbus A220-300, a fuel-efficient narrowbody well-suited to the point-to-point thin-market routes the carrier pursues.

In the fourth quarter of 2024, Breeze posted its first-ever profitable quarter — generating more than $200 million in revenue at an operating margin exceeding 4%. Annual revenue grew approximately 78% in 2024 compared to 2023. The carrier also received FAA flag carrier certification, becoming the first U.S. airline in over a decade to earn that designation, which enabled its scheduled international service.