There’s a new airline taking off in the U.S. tomorrow: Breeze Airways, which will mostly fly in the South and East.
Its first flight departs Tampa, Florida at 10:30 a.m Eastern, bound for Charleston, South Carolina. It’s the second low-cost carrier to start service this year –– Avelo Airlines started flying just last month in the West. It’s striking that the two have kicked off in such a short space of time; establishing a new airline in the U.S. is not easy.
“The risks are huge. The graveyard of failed startup airlines in the U.S. is large and deep,” said Edward Russell, who covers the industry for Skift and Airline Weekly. For one thing, Russell said, there’s intense competition. “Major airlines often come in and will add flights on routes [that] start-up carriers add.” That’s already happening to Avelo, he said, on some of…
