Breeze Airways to pick up slack from Spirit Airlines closure at Atlantic City International Airport
By the end of the year, every route from the Atlantic City International Airport only previously serviced by the now-defunct Spirit Airlines will be covered by Breeze Airways and Allegiant Air.
Atlantic City International Airport will have every route that the now-defunct Spirit Airlines flew covered, thanks to a new partnership with Breeze Airways by the end of the year.
Spirit, the low-cost air carrier, announced Saturday it would no longer operate after 34 years.
Atlantic City International Airport, which serves around a million passengers a year and flies to 11 cities, depended on Spirit to provide service to certain destinations in Florida and the south including Fort Myers, Orlando, West Palm Beach, and Myrtle Beach, S.C. By the end of the year, all those routes will be covered by Breeze Airways, said Tim Kroll, director of the Atlantic City International Airport.
“We did not have advanced notice. We saw the media reports like everybody else and prepared a plan,” Kroll said.
President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration had given Spirit a “final proposal” for a taxpayer-funded takeover to keep it from going under amid financial trouble, but no deal was reached on Friday and the airline announced it was going under the following day.
The airline started running flights out of Atlantic City in 1992.
In recent years, Spirit saw a decrease in scheduled flights from Atlantic City. It announced in 2024 that it would close its crew base there but continue serving the airport.
Breeze Airways, coincidentally, had its first flight out of Atlantic City on Wednesday, just a few days after Spirit closed. The new partnership became official in January and was planned to launch in early May before the Spirit news broke.
The airline was slated to provide service to Charleston, S.C., Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and Tampa, Fla. When Spirit announced its closure, the airport quickly added routes to Orlando starting in July, Fort Myers and Myrtle Beach starting in October, and West Palm Beach launching in December to its offerings.
“Breeze stepped up quickly,” Kroll said.
The service to those cities will be similarly priced to what Spirit provided, but less frequent, Kroll said. Spirit flew to those destinations every day whereas Breeze and Allegiant Air will likely only make trips to those cities three times a week, he said.
