Breeze Airways flew into Manchester-Boston Regional Airport for the first time Friday with the Airbus A220-300 aircraft christened with champagne to celebrate the new service. The low-cost carrier is the third new airline to land in the past three years. Many passengers in the inaugural flight from Charleston, South Carolina, were happy to have a direct flight to the Granite State.
Patricia and Robert Defosse, who live in Lexington, South Carolina, used to have to stop at multiple airports to fly into MHT to visit family in Lisbon. “It is so much easier. I love this,” said Patricia Defosse, who grew up in Littleton.
“This is how we are going to be coming to New Hampshire from now on — on Breeze.” Breeze — which calls itself a “Nice Low Cost Carrier” — will offer twice-weekly nonstop flights from MHT to Orlando and seasonal flights to Charleston, South Carolina, to start. Flights to Tampa, which will have one stop (but no plane change) on Thursdays and Sundays, will begin in September, followed by nonstops to Fort Myers in October.
Breeze was launched in May 2021 by the founder of JetBlue, David Neeleman. Cory Christian, regional manager of airport operations, said about 90 of the 137 seats were full on the first flight, with similar numbers for the flight down to Charleston. The introductory fares start as low as $49.
“If those four routes do as well as we expect them to, you’ll see more flights, more destinations from Breeze from Manchester, as we conti.
