Breeze Airlines Leaving Mobile Airport
MOBILE, Ala.
January 6, 2025
By Dale Hines
The Mobile Airport is losing one of its carriers it was announced last week.
Breeze Airways will suspend its operations at Mobile’s downtown airport by the end of the month.
A spokesperson for the airline says they’re working with customers and offering refunds.
When the airline landed in Mobile it offered cheap one-way flights to Orlando, Florida and Providence Rhode Island, starting at $39 one-way.
Mobile Airport Authority Executive Director Andy Wilson says they’ve been discussing suspending services with Breeze for the past six weeks.
The plight of the low cost airlines in our areas has seen several come and leave soon thereafter including Frontier who stopped flights in 2020 and Avelo Airways offered flights to Orlando from May 2023 to March of last year.
“This service was a combination of agreements between the airport authority and Breeze, where we were guaranteeing a certain percentage of revenue per seat. That was getting to the point where we saw that there was some interest, but it was also a bit costly for us, and Breeze wasn’t getting the best utilization for their aircraft either,” said Wilson.
“The Orlando route is much more of a leisure market. Everybody likes to go to Disney, and some people like to come up here to go to other areas of the Gulf Coast. I just don’t see it as a really sustainable market at this point in time, until they’re able to complement the business travel market along with the leisure market,” said Wilson.
That will happen in March 2026 when the new terminal opens and the legacy carriers, American Airlines, Delta, and United, move from Mobile Regional Airport in west Mobile to the downtown facility, which is currently under construction.
Wilson says Breeze hinted at a possible return after that happens.
A spokesperson for Breeze Airways said, “We see a lot of promise in Mobile and the surrounding area, so while there is currently no estimated timeline for resuming service at BFM, we hope to return as we continue to grow.”
Wilson is also optimistic about other carriers operating at the new Mobile International Airport.
“Absolutely. I think Southwest, JetBlue,” said Wilson.
That’s because they anticipate more passengers in the coming years will use Mobile’s new airport, which is close to 1-10.
“We do have some fairly solid evidence that we lose more than half of our traffic to Pensacola,” said Wilson.
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