Breeze Airways, Avelo Airlines announce expansion at Tweed New Haven

Published: Aug 12, 2024 Duration: 00:04:47 Category: News & Politics

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A big announcement right now. Yes, we're going to join this news conference already in progress. Let's listen in right now. Uh Ingrid from New Haven works and Bill from Workforce Alliance. My name is Jorge Robertson. I'm the CEO of airports. We have proudly served HBN as the operator for more than 25 years serving as an established and consistent partner to the airport. In recent years, we've announced plans to take this historic airport to great new levels with the partnership of the mayor and our airport authority and many community leaders. We made HBN the fastest growing airport in the last few years and we have secured the approval of the FA to continue with plans to expand our runway, build a new modern terminal and continue to serve Southern Connecticut region which for too long had been one of the most underserved markets in the country. Today. We are here to take another major step forward a step that will make HBN an even bigger driver of regional economy for boosting tourism, benefiting local businesses and connecting, connecting this region more directly to the local communities and economies throughout the country. As we undertake that work. We are so deeply committed to growing sustainably. We are proud to have the fa approve our environmental assessment earlier this year. And as we grow with new partners, we will continue to focus on minimizing our environmental impact while maximizing the benefits of our community. As we look to the future, I couldn't be more excited for the continued growth at Tweed New Haven Airport. And I wanna thank everyone who has helped make this success possible with that. Let's get to today's news. So to share it, I'd like to welcome Lucas Johnson, the Chief Commercial Officer of Breeze Airways. Thank you. Thanks Jorge and uh and just really, really excited to be here. Um It's been a long time coming. Um So as you mentioned, um Lucas Johnson, Chief Commercial Air uh Officer at uh Breeze Airways, and we are here to announce um our introduction uh into New Haven. So we'll be announcing 10 nonstop destinations uh starting out in uh just a couple of months in December. Um So in December, we've got uh Fort Myers, West Palm Beach, Orlando and Vero Beach coming and then we have six additional destinations uh nonstops coming out in February, um with Charleston, Jacksonville, uh Norfolk, um Gosh, Richmond, Raleigh, Sarasota and continuing service on to uh New Orleans. We got a lot coming on here. It's actually our single largest announcement in the air period in our history. Um We've got deep roots in Connecticut we started three years ago. Um our first flight and I landed up in uh just down the road in Hartford and uh over the years as we continue to grow, service to eight different airports in New England. Um We've noticed uh a huge affinity for our product. We fly brand new uh Airbus, a two twenties um very low noise profile, um significantly lower. It's a next generation aircraft. Um So communities love it, guests, love it. Um We've got a first class product upfront um Cul bre descent um and curated uh snacks and drinks uh on board. We've got fast streaming Wi Fi um In each year of our existence, we've been voted uh in the top four by voting travelers um by travel and leisure uh as best domestic airline. Uh We also won best domestic seat comfort in North America this year by Apex Awards, the industry awards. So uh really tremendous uh industry response and guest response about our service. So, um very, very excited about uh what we're bringing here. Um You know, looking to continue to grow sustainably as as Jorge mentioned and just super excited. So if you go to our website fly.com, you can check out um all the products and uh we offer uh also significant extra leg products. I think our 220 to be a little bit quieter than that guy there. So you guys can uh can hear it. Um But yeah, just once again, flight.com, um tremendously excited about uh growing our partnership here in Connecticut. And uh thank you. All right. Thank you, Lucas. That was Lucas Johnson from Breeze Airways saying that they are now expanding out to Tweed and he listed off a whole laundry list of places they will be flying to, I believe they just expanded service from Bradley as well. I believe so as well. So, yeah. Good news for Connecticut. Right. Absolutely.

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