Breeze Airways is expected to end flights with the Embraer E195 in April
Breeze Airways, the US low-cost airline founded by businessman David Neeleman, is close to retiring its last Embraer E195 jets.
According to Ishrion Aviation, the last flights of the 124-seat aircraft will take place on April 7. They are flights MX330/331 and MX326/327, which depart from New Orleans, in the south of the country.
The MX330 will make a stop in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, and then continue on to Long Island MacArthur Airport, in Islip, New York.
The MX326 is headed to Jacksonville, Florida, and is expected to be the aircraft’s last flight by Breeze.
The airline currently has three E195s in service, with registrations N137BZ, N140BZ and N145BZ, which were leased by NAC.
The jets are expected to be transferred to Total Linhas Aéreas, which is preparing to return to regular passenger service in Brazil.
The E195s are expected to receive registrations PS-TLL, PS-TLM and PS-TLN and will operate flights from Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, among others cities.
A single fleet of Airbus A220s
When he launched Breeze, Neeleman intended to use only the Airbus A220-300, with 137 seats in two classes.
But to speed up the airline’s launch, it leased 10 second-hand E190s, some of them from Azul, which arrived in the US in late 2021.
The jets have 108 seats and were used on shorter flights while the A220s were not being delivered new. In 2022 and 2023, Breeze added the three E195s to bolster its fleet.
The company has been planning for some time to operate only with the A220-300s, of which it currently has 37 aircraft out of a total of 90 firm orders.
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