We have 70 more A220s on firm order, plus another 40 options. The pilots really enjoy flying it as well. That airplane has big windows, big bins, LED lighting and it’s quiet. We have seen great fuel-burn performance, and our guests and team members really love it, too. That’s a higher utilization for our most efficient airplanes. That’s the type of routing a typical A220 would do on a given day. Typically, the airplane would have an additional segment in its day-so think of it as starting in Hartford and going to a place like Pittsburgh or Cincinnati, and then continuing on to a place like San Francisco and then back. We’re using the A220s for a lot of cross-country flying. We have 10 A220s and 15 Embraer E-Jets and are getting good performance out of them. The inflationary pressures are more about us as a management team making sure that we can properly manage the business-so: what is it going to cost us to buy spare parts, for example? We are focused on managing costs, but I don’t see it impacting demand a lot-at least we’re not seeing any indications of that. I don’t see inflationary pressures having a significant impact on leisure demand, which is what we mostly serve. We’ve got comfortable airplanes providing nonstop service at nice fares.Īre you concerned about inflationary pressures and a potential market slowdown? We also provide first-class seats on the Airbus A220-and we have a section within the economy cabin that has more legroom. For the overwhelming majority of our markets today, we are the only airline that flies nonstop between those two cities. We’re unique, even compared to some of the other low-cost and ultra-low-cost carriers because they are focused on those large cities they fly large, dense airplanes and are competing directly with others. It’s an opportunity that has been moving toward us and I think will continue to move toward Breeze. We are flying nonstop to places where people want to go, such as Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville in Florida Savannah, Georgia Charleston, South Carolina Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Unless you wanted to go to that hub, you had to connect in that busy airport, which took time. What they primarily had been flying into those airports were 50- and 70-ish-seat airplanes, in and out of a hub, two to four flights a day. That’s a great thing for us because it opens up opportunity.
We’ve seen the larger carriers continue to reduce the capacity they have allocated to smaller and midsize airports while they focus on the larger ones. What’s your outlook for the North American low-cost carrier and ultra-low-cost carrier market, especially if JetBlue Airways’ acquisition of Spirit Airlines goes through? He spoke with Lee Ann Shay about fleet expansion and flying charters. Tom Doxey, formerly United Airlines’ senior vice president of technical operations and chief financial officer of operations, became president of Breeze Airways in June 2022.
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