Low-cost carrier Breeze Airways coming to Piedmont Triad International Airport

A new low-cost air carrier is coming to Piedmont Triad International Airport.

Breeze Airways will offer nonstop service to Orlando, Florida, and summer seasonal flights to Hartford, Connecticut. Flights will begin in June and booking has begun. 

The airline found that there was a large number of people in the Triad who didn’t want to drive to another city for lost-cost fares, says Lukas Johnson the company’s chief commercial officer.

“Greensboro, specifically, for the country, probably one of the most underserved areas in terms of number of departing seats in the local metro population, including Winston-Salem, Greensboro, High Point, all the students in the universities,” he says.

Johnson says the Hartford service is tied to the high number of students from the Northeast attending college in the Piedmont.

The move is part of Breeze’s broader push into North Carolina markets. The Utah-based company also recently announced plans for service in Wilmington and New Bern. Breeze Airways already has stops at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU).