Breeze Airways now offers direct flights from Richmond to San Francisco

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — In celebration of its one-year anniversary in Richmond, Breeze Airways has introduced 4 new highly-anticipated direct flights. Breeze will now fly direct out of Richmond to San Francisco, Hartford, Jacksonville and Windfall, totaling 9 flights out of the river metropolis, together with present flights to Charleston, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Tampa, and West Palm Seashore.

Breeze Airways CEO, David Neelman, mentioned the corporate needs to concentrate on way of life.

“We create these areas the place folks can reside in Charleston. They will fly throughout the day and are available again at night time. So it’s only a higher life,” Neelman mentioned. “We’re specializing in way of life.”

Neelman additionally beforehand co-founded Morris Air, WestJet, JetBlue and Azul Linhas Aereas.

“You don’t add new cities to a metropolis if it’s not going properly, so we’re actually happy with how issues are going right here in Richmond,” Neelman mentioned.

The Vice President of Airline Advertising and marketing at Airbus North America, Matthew Saks, mentioned the continuous flights will make the most of the most recent member of the Airbus plane household, the Airbus A220, which makes use of a 3:2 configuration, and is extra fuel-efficient. The aircraft may even have fewer seats than what visitors are used to usually seeing on bigger planes. The A220 could have 126 seats, in comparison with the everyday bigger aircraft which seats 200 or extra.

“It additionally ensures that the passengers have probably the most snug expertise doable,” Saks mentioned. “So if you get onto the plane, you’ll discover that the plane has larger home windows, it’s lighter, it’s airier, and guaranteeing that the passenger, from their perspective, could have a extremely snug journey and revel in their time on the plane.”

Neelman mentioned the nonstop flights will hub to hub, which means the airline – and its clients – shall be saving cash with out connections.

“We simply picked cities from Richmond which have lots of people touring, after which we stimulate it with the decrease fare, and, you recognize, we all the time say, ‘We get you there for twice as sooner, however half the value’,” Neeman mentioned.