![]() Soft drinks, juice, and water are also for sale, priced at $3.50 each. Snack time! This is $8 worth of noms.īreeze offers four snacks on board: Chex Mix, Pringles, Peanut M&Ms, and a Protein Trail Mix each price at $4.50. And while the selection is somewhat limited, the snack service is can now deliver the desired revenue. Like the new seats and the streaming IFE kit, however, it was not ready on day one of operations. Selling snacks on board was always part of the Breeze playbook. Legroom remains as it was at launch, which is good news. Both offer “nice” differentiation relative to other players in the US U/LCC market. Breeze also chose to retain the relatively comfortable layout on board, as well as seats that recline. The seat covers no longer sag and they do not (yet) show the marks of abuse that come with years of flying. Fresh seat covers and an update seat prodcut on board. It also delivers a more comfortable option on board compared to the older seats the planes initially operated with. The Safran Z110i seat will also fly on the company’s A220 fleet, providing efficiencies of a common product. Since the carrier launched operations in May 2021 it also completed a refresh of the cabin interiors, with refreshed seats on board. And knowing that these planes only fly domestic routes, the option to choose a lighter, less expensive terrestrial option remains viable. “If the sports teams or whatnot demand it” Breeze might consider a solution. Neeleman concedes that the company’s charter business with the E-Jet fleet might ultimately force it to reconsider the offline nature of the planes. Read More: Breeze adds Hartford base, with A220 focus The short flight duration is, for Neeleman, sufficient to dissuade investing in the satellite connection option on those older planes.īut connectivity on the legacy fleet is not completely out of the question. While the A220 will eventually offer in-flight wifi via a satellite-based service, the E190s fly offline and Breeze expects them to stay that way. The airline did not, however, install USB power as was previously tipped. Navigate to the show you want to watch via the Breeze OnBoard IFE portal and it just starts playing. But Breeze managed to complete that work with minimal impact to operations and, again, minimal expense. The Breeze implementation of Airconnect Go does require a minor alteration to the aircraft for fitting power it is not a truly portable appliance in an overhead bin. The seats include a holder for mobile devices, useful if taking advantage of the streaming IFE on board Read More: Breeze bets big on premium with new A220s Given the high share of the carrier’s E-Jet operations shorter than 2 hours, there wouldn’t be enough time to watch a full movie anyways. ![]() So are relatively low content licensing costs by choosing only TV shows and excluding movies. CEO and Founder David Neeleman was even more blunt about the reasoning behind including it on board. Only 6-10 episodes of each, but that should be enough for a couple hours of flying.Ĭompany CFO Trent Porter described the IFE gear as a differentiator, part of Breeze‘s push to be that Nice LCC. Some of the many TV shows available on board with Breeze’s streaming IFE platform. That’s a step above Frontier or Allegiant‘s on-board options, though arguably trails Spirit Airlines‘ in-flight connectivity solution. The system offers episodes from a few dozen TV series as well as a handful of games for passengers. Take, for example, the decision to install the Anuvu Airconnect Go streaming entertainment platform on the company’s Embraer E190/195 fleet. Pa圎x.Aero flew on the Islip to Charleston and Charleston to West Palm Beach inaugural flights as a guest of Breeze Airways. But in the intervening months the company managed to complete a retrofit program addressing seating, in-flight entertainment (IFE), and on-board ancillary sales.įlying with Breeze today delivers notable differences on board compared to the company’s inaugural operations. ![]() ![]() Getting them into service was more critical than a retrofit to the company’s planned standards. It snagged the planes on relatively low cost leases as COVID-19 saw airlines shrink operations. When the carrier launched operations in May 2021, it did so with a fleet of used E-Jets. Delivering a “Nice” passenger experience is critical, but controlling costs also plays a massive role in those decisions. But executives hope the airline will be seen more as a “Nice Low Cost Carrier, a niche of its own where we really focus on treating guests the right way.” Among other things, that drives the company’s cabin configuration and on-board amenities. Yes, Breeze Airways flies under the low cost carrier concept. ![]() Time for pushback of the first Breeze E-Jet departure from Palm Beach International Airport ![]()
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