Breeze Airline?

[Anonymous]

Has anyone flown Breeze and if so do you recommend or not? Is it bad like Spirit? There's a direct flight option that's attractive to us (good times and obviously direct) that is close in price to one on a major carrier with a layover, but I would not do it for a flight on Spirit so trying to figure out if it makes sense or not. TIA!

[Anonymous]

Used for our college kid to get to a family event 2 years ago - cheap, worked great. He's 6'2" and had no complaints (is fairly well traveled for a college kid).

[Anonymous]

The actual in flight experience is usually perfectly fine. It's a David Neeleman airline (founder of Jet Blue among others), so it's decent.

The downside of Breeze is that when things are delayed and cancelled, they have such a limited schedule that you're stuck. A lot of their direct routes only fly on say Thursdays and Sundays, so if your Thursday flight is cancelled you're left without another option.

When I took them once the flight was delayed 5 hours and all these other flyers at the gate were trying to book with other airlines to still get out that night. But the whole reason we were flying Breeze in the first place was because it was the only nonstop flight between those two cities. So you could either suck it up and wait out the delay hoping it would leave, or spend the same amount of time as the delay would take but connecting through other cities.

Bottom line, fly Breeze if your travel plans are flexible. Don't if they are not. You have to decide if the convenience of nonstop outweighs the convenience of stopping in a hub city with lots of options.

[Anonymous]

We were looking at it because it is the only nonstop between SFO + CVG but the dates did not work. The rates were amazing.

[Anonymous]

OP - really good points. I think we’re gonna connect given this though hope to try them again in the future.

Anonymous wrote:The actual in flight experience is usually perfectly fine. It's a David Neeleman airline (founder of Jet Blue among others), so it's decent.

The downside of Breeze is that when things are delayed and cancelled, they have such a limited schedule that you're stuck. A lot of their direct routes only fly on say Thursdays and Sundays, so if your Thursday flight is cancelled you're left without another option.

When I took them once the flight was delayed 5 hours and all these other flyers at the gate were trying to book with other airlines to still get out that night. But the whole reason we were flying Breeze in the first place was because it was the only nonstop flight between those two cities. So you could either suck it up and wait out the delay hoping it would leave, or spend the same amount of time as the delay would take but connecting through other cities.

Bottom line, fly Breeze if your travel plans are flexible. Don't if they are not. You have to decide if the convenience of nonstop outweighs the convenience of stopping in a hub city with lots of options.