10 FEBRUARY 2020
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The founder of US carrier JetBlue and Canada's WestJet, David Neeleman, launched his fifth start-up, Breeze, on Friday with an application to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and US Department of Transportation (DoT) for an airline operating certificate.
David Neeleman: King of the start-ups.
With Breeze, which was originally named Moxy, Neeleman says he plans to follow essentially the same strategy by launching point-to-point flights to and from US destinations which have been overlooked or ignored by larger carriers.
Neeleman, who is planning to start operations with the Embraer E195, said: "We think there's a market where you can go with a smaller plane with a lower trip cost and service these cities that have been forgotten or neglected,
"I would be very surprised if a single Moxy route had non-stop service competition. There are literally hundreds and hundreds of city pairs that are crying out for non-stop flights."
Longer term, the airline has ordered 60 new Airbus A220-300s, a longer version of the A220-100 model in service with Delta. Air Canada has recently put the Dash-300 variant in service (BTN 6 January).
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Revealed last week: The Breeze Airways livery, shown on an Embraer E195.
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