Breeze Airways has received three new Airbus A220s from Breeze Airways under a long-term sale-and-leaseback agreement, the lessor said today (March 5).
“Partners like TrueNoord enable us to continue our mission of providing affordable and convenient air service to our guests across 86 cities in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean,” said Breeze Airways CFO Trent Porter.
This is the first Airbus deal and the largest aircraft type to join TrueNoord's portfolio to date. The aircraft were delivered last month.
“The aircraft type is central to Breeze's strategy of transitioning to a single-type fleet and expanding its network across under-connected tier 2 and tier 3 city pairs,” said TrueNoord sales director Americas Maarten Grift. "The right-sized seat capacity and lower operating costs of the type are enabling Breeze to profitability serve routes that larger narrowbody jets cannot sustain.
“A trend we are increasingly seeing across the Americas as operators seek to expand or renew their fleets with new-generation aircraft.”
TrueNoord CEO Anne-Bart Tieleman said: “The A220 complements TrueNoord's existing Embraer E2 order book and highlights our appetite for new generation 100-150 seat class aircraft.