Breeze Airways have announced several new nonstops to/from Florida beginning in May.
- Jacksonville to Los Angeles and Pittsburgh
- Fort Myers to Hartford and Providence
- Tampa to Hartford, Portland (ME) and Providence
- Orlando to Providence
- Sarasota/Bradenton to Providence
Spirit will add a fifth daily Orlando-San Juan nonstop and a second daily Fort Lauderdale-San Juan nonstop in June. Ironically both routes compete with jetBlue whom Spirit is in a proposed merger agreement with. JetBlue flies five times daily from both Orlando and Fort Lauderdale to San Juan. Southwest also flies both routes, and Frontier also flies Orlando-San Juan.
El Al, the national long-haul carrier of Israel will increase Miami-Tel Aviv service in May to six days a week, and begin periodic (High Holy Days)seasonal weekday service to Fort Lauderdale to/from Tel Aviv in September. FLL-TLV becomes permanent and year-round in Summer 2024.
Southwest will begin Orlando-Long Beach weekend only nonstop service this fall.
Alaska is launching San Diego-Tampa this summer and resuming Portland (OR)-Fort Lauderdale this fall.
Norse Atlantic will add new nonstop service from Orlando and Fort Lauderdale to London-Gatwick in June. Orlando flights operate four times weekly and Fort Lauderdale the other three days of the week. Norse currently serves Oslo from Fort Lauderdale and will resume Orlando-Oslo flights late next month. Fort Lauderdale-Berlin flights are scheduled to resume in the summer.
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