A budget airline will offer nonstop flights from Portland to a city north of Long Island in New York this summer.
Starting June 20, Breeze Airways will offer flights from Portland International Jetport to Westchester County Airport, giving Mainers easy access to the city of White Plains, according to Zachary Sundquist, the assistant director of the jetport.
Those flights will be offered on Thursdays and Sundays.
“Breeze Airways continues to invest in the Portland community,” Paul Bradbury, the jetport’s director, said Wednesday morning. “We are pleased to see additional flights to the New York City metro area and know many in the community will be excited for non-stop access to Westchester County.”
Wednesday’s announcement expands the slate of flights Breeze Airways now offers out of Portland. Beginning May 24, Breeze Airways will offer seasonal nonstop flights to Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, on Mondays and Fridays. The airline offers nonstop flights to Orlando on Wednesdays and Saturdays, to Tampa on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and to Fort Meyers, Florida, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Other Breeze Airways destinations include Charleston, South Carolina, on Mondays and Fridays; Pittsburgh on Mondays and Fridays; Norfolk, Virginia, on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays; and Islip, New York, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Breeze Airways flights to Islip, Norfolk and Pittsburgh will be offered seasonally during the summer. Fort Meyers flights are offered seasonally during the winter and spring.
The Portland airport is the state’s busiest. It saw record traffic in 2019, when more than 2.18 million traveled through there. But that traffic took a big hit in 2020 amid the global pandemic, with passengers traveling through the jetport falling to 792,571, the lowest than at any point in the past 15 years. That rebounded to 2.21 million last year, according to data posted on the Portland International Jetport’s website.
Breeze Airways also will offer flights from Bangor International Airport to Orlando International Airport on Thursdays and Sundays, starting Oct. 3, and flights to Tampa on Mondays and Fridays, starting Oct. 4.
It also will offer seasonal flights to Fort Myers on Wednesdays and Saturdays, starting on Oct. 5.
