Breeze, a low-cost carrier founded in 2021, believes it can attract a steadfast customer base to its loyalty program with the release of its co-branded credit card.
Unions come for Avelo and Breeze. Flight attendants at Avelo have voted to organize, while pilots at Breeze are filing for unionization. Airlines in the U.S. are among the most heavily unionized industries in the country.
Startups Breeze Airways and Avelo Airlines are rivals, a competition that is now igniting a battle in the relatively sleepy aviation state of Connecticut, where two airports just 56 miles apart, Hartford and New Haven, are being pitted against one another over expansion demands from the two carriers.
Now that airlines are no longer required to fly to all their pre-pandemic destinations per aid rules, several have begun dropping routes to smaller cities. This is the perfect time for startup airlines to fill in the void and start flying from secondary markets, Avelo's new Chief Financial Officer Hunter Keay says.