Two weeks in it is too soon to say how the newest carrier at Akron-Canton Airport, Breeze Airways, is doing.
The website Simple flying said there are no publicly available statistics showing how particular Breeze routes are performing but that information should be available in a few months.
Breeze began flying between Akron-Canton and Tampa on June 26 and also plans to fly from CAK later this month to New Orleans and Charleston, South Carolina.
Thus far Breeze has launched 39 routes with all of them having an average distance of 604 miles.
None of the new carrier’s routes operate daily. The Tampa route from Akron-Canton operates only on Saturdays.
Officials at Breeze, which began operations in May, have said that flights would only operate on the strongest travel days in order to avoid having to discount fares too much to grow demand.
The first Breeze flight to land at Akron-Canton had 75 passengers aboard a 118-seat Embraer 195 regional jet. An equal number boarded the return flight.
Simple Flying said that Breeze schedule through August show all flights concentrated on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
Breeze jets will not be on the ground at Akron-Canton for long, only long enough to disembark passengers and board departing ones.
The maiden Breeze flight to Akron-Canton received the traditional water canon salute from fire fighters as well as a champagne christening from invited local officials.
As Breeze was getting settled at Akron-Canton, though, the airport lost more service when American Eagle discontinued its flights to Philadelphia.
The airport has struggled to regain service lost during the COVID-19 pandemic, which sent air passenger traffic plummeting.
Akron-Canton now has daily flights to Charlotte, Washington (Dulles and Reagan National) airports and Chicago (O’Hare).
Aside from Breeze, less than daily flights are operated by Spirit Airlines from CAK to Orlando and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
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