JetBlue Airways<\/a> halted flights between Tallahassee and Fort Lauderdale within months of its startup, citing a subpar business performance.<\/p>\n\u201cI think we\u2019ve got the right [business] model,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got the right plane size, the right kind of brand and the right kind of product.\u201d<\/p>\n
Breeze passengers, he noted, have access to streaming Wi-Fi and electrical power at every seat. Out of the 137 seats on each plane, the cabins contain 12 first class seats and 45 \u201cextra legroom\u201d seats. The carrier\u2019s onboard premium section helps support the idea that Breeze is \u201cnot just all one type of service.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s why we\u2019ve been able to make hundreds of routes work and Tallahassee is part of that,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n
Florida cities currently served besides Fort Lauderdale include West Palm Beach. Key West, Fort Myers\/Bradenton, Orlando, Vero Beach, Daytona Beach. Fort Myers, Sarasota, Jacksonville and Pensacola.<\/p>\n
South Florida became the last area in Florida for expansion, Johnson said, because \u201cwe just waited to make sure the capacity is right in the market.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if Breeze is watching Spirit as it works its way through bankruptcy court, Johnson said,\u00a0\u201cwe\u2019re certainly monitoring the changes in the marketplace down there. It\u2019s just a really dynamic time in air travel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSome flights out of Fort Lauderdale are routes that used to have air service by a number of carriers and people have not had that option,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The new and expanded Breeze flight services from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood starting in early July:<\/p>\n
Inside Florida<\/p>\n
Jacksonville: New nonstop daily starting July 1, from $49 one way.
\nTallahassee: New nonstop\u00a0 Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays starting July 2, from $39 one way.
\nTampa: New nonstop service operating 13 times weekly starting July 1, from $40 one way.
\nPensacola: Existing route increasing from twice to six times weekly beginning July 1.<\/p>\n
Out-of-state<\/p>\n
Birmingham, Ala.: New nonstop on Mondays and Fridays starting July 3, from $59 one way.
\nCharleston, S.C.: New nonstop on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Sundays starting July 2, from $49 one way.
\nGreenville-Spartanburg, S.C.: New nonstop on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays starting July 2, from $49 one way.
\nSalisbury, Md.: New nonstop\u00a0 Wednesdays and Saturdays starting July 1, from $79 one way.
\nWilkes-Barre\/Scranton, Pa.: New nonstop\u00a0 Wednesdays and Saturdays starting July 1, from $79 one way.
\nMyrtle Beach, S.C.: Existing route increasing from twice to six times weekly beginning July 1.
\nSavannah, Ga.: Existing route increasing from twice to four times weekly Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays beginning July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Discount airline Breeze Airways will soon become the latest airline to take a crack at serving Tallahassee from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[506,28,29,249,686,116,118,117,114,266,123,373,115,557,109,106,1798,107,4556],"class_list":{"0":"post-167014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-broward-county","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale","12":"tag-hollywood","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","15":"tag-jacksonville-news","16":"tag-latest-headlines","17":"tag-local-news","18":"tag-miami","19":"tag-miami-dade-county","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-palm-beach-county","22":"tag-social","23":"tag-things-to-do","24":"tag-transportation","25":"tag-travel","26":"tag-west-palm-beach"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}