{"id":189078,"date":"2026-03-12T19:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/189078\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:20:19","slug":"breeze-airways-celebrates-inaugural-flight-from-pensacola-to-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/189078\/","title":{"rendered":"Breeze Airways celebrates inaugural flight from Pensacola to Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PENSACOLA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10tv.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WALA<\/a>) &#8211; Breeze Airways celebrated the inaugural flight from Orlando International Airport to Pensacola International Airport Thursday, continuing an expansion that began when the airline launched service at the airport in June 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cBreeze started in June 2024 with two flights a week to Tampa,\u201d Payne said. \u201cThey are now operating as of the July schedule this year 25 flights a week to seven non-stop markets \u2014 so a huge growth to markets where we need additional service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The new Orlando route currently operates twice a week, on Sundays and Thursdays. Breeze plans to expand that service to four flights a week in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Assistant Director of Strategy and Development Todd Payne said the airline\u2019s continued investment in the Pensacola market carries broad regional impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhen you see an airline come in like Breeze has and continue to build and invest in a market like Pensacola, it\u2019s fantastic because it affects all of what we do,\u201d Payne said. \u201cIt affects our tourism, it affects our business, it affects our military \u2014 it\u2019s a very positive economic element in our region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Airport officials said a direct flight to Fort Lauderdale is also in development, which would give travelers additional in-state options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s great for the state because as you know it\u2019s a long drive to several of the major cities in the state,\u201d Payne said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Passengers were on hand early Thursday to board the first Orlando-to-Pensacola flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WALA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENSACOLA, Fla. (WALA) &#8211; Breeze Airways celebrated the inaugural flight from Orlando International Airport to Pensacola International Airport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140,3118],"class_list":["post-189078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-plane-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189078","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=189078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}