Breeze Airways la nuova lowcost di David Neeleman


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JetBlue Founder Raising Funds for New U.S. Airline, Report Says


  • David Neeleman wants to begin flying low-cost carrier in 2020
  • Orders have been placed with Bombardier for 60 CS300 jets

After a decade of industry consolidation, David Neeleman, one of aviation’s famed entrepreneurs, sees room for a new low-cost U.S. airline focused on reducing travel hassles by using smaller airports, according to two industry reports.

The proposed airline, currently dubbed Moxy Airways, has secured orders for 60 CS300 aircraft from Canada’s Bombardier Inc., and is raising $100 million to begin flying in 2020, Airline Weekly reported late Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The Neeleman-led investor group is also soliciting proposals from Chinese lessors to finance 18 of the aircraft for delivery between 2020 and 2022, London-based Airfinance Journal first reported on June 11, citing multiple unnamed sources familiar with the new venture.

Bombardier rose as much as 6 percent Monday, the most intraday in four months, to C$5.15 ($3.89) in Toronto.


It’s unclear how far along Neeleman, 58, is in developing the new airline. He also helped to establish JetBlue Airways Corp., Morris Air, WestJet Airlines Ltd. and Brazil’s Azul SA.
Read more: Neeleman’s Azul sees value in air cargo
Neeleman declined to comment, Airline Weekly said. He didn’t return an email from Bloomberg News Monday seeking comment. Trey Urbahn, a close business associate who has worked in management for some of Neeleman’s airline projects, didn’t return a call and email Monday.
Moxy is designed to maximize the economic advantages of the C Series jets, along with the use of smaller, secondary airports such as Providence, Rhode Island; Fort Worth, Texas; and Burbank, California, Airline Weekly said. The advanced jetliner reduces fuel consumption due to its modern engines and extensive use of lightweight carbon fiber.
Neeleman is a long-time supporter of aircraft manufactured by Airbus SE, which has taken a controlling stake in the C Series in partnership with Bombardier. The companies plan to close their deal July 1.
Moxy has told investors it will sell only point-to-point flights to keep down costs, according to a presentation cited by Airline Weekly. But the airline isn’t seeking to mimic ultra low-cost carriers like Allegiant Travel Co. or Spirit Airlines Inc. Instead, Moxy would probably be more in line with Neeleman’s past ventures at Azul and JetBlue, where spacious seats and free Wi-Fi combine with some fees for extra services, such as snacks or seat assignments, Airline Weekly reported.

Targeting Convenience

In a presentation seen by Airline Weekly, the venture contended that the U.S. economy expanded 34 percent in the decade ending 2017, while the number of domestic airline seats was flat. Many smaller markets also lost a significant amount of air service during that period. Moxy also argued that the largest U.S. carriers are funneling most traffic through their large hubs, increasing overall travel times.
With 60 CS300 orders, Moxy would become the second-largest C Series customer, after Delta Air Lines Inc., which is acquiring 75 of the smaller CS100 model. Delta plans to begin service with the plane next year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...raising-funds-for-new-u-s-airline-report-says

Ecco l'articolo di Airline Weekly:
https://airlineweekly.com/hes-baaaa...d-neeleman-wants-to-launch-a-new-u-s-airline/

E ancora un interessante e colorito articolo di Forbes:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daniel...urn-to-the-u-s-market-with-moxy/#11cc7ad83b48
 
Ma...c'entra qualcosa con l'hotel al T2 di Malpensa?
 
La nuova compagnia di Neeleman si chiamera' Breeze Airways, e non Moxy come dichiarato in precedenza.


Neeleman's Breeze applies for certificate transfer

Breeze Airways, the start-up passenger carrier headed by serial aviation entrepreneur David Neeleman, has applied to acquire the certificate of now-defunct Compass Airlines, and published plans for its first year of operation.
Breeze, which had originally been called “Moxy”, had intended to launch air transport services in 2020. The airline pushed back its plans to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic and ensuing sharp drop in passenger demand across the air transport industry. It has also postponed until 2021 deliveries of Airbus A220s.
In a filing with the Department of Transportation on 9 July, Compass and Breeze applied for the transfer to Breeze of the “certificate of public convenience and necessity issued to Compass… which authorises Compass to engage in interstate scheduled air transportation”.
Within its first twelve months of operation, the Salt-Lake-City-headquartered budget airline says it hopes to connect up to 15 secondary, underserved cities in the central United States. The region is also idiomatically referred to as “flyover country”.
On 7 February, Breeze submitted its own application for an operating certificate which, it says in this new filing, it will withdraw pending transfer of the Compass certificate.
Compass, which flew regional routes for American Airlines as American Eagle, shut down on 7 April, the second US regional carrier to fall victim to the coronavirus pandemic after sister company Trans States Airlines folded just a week earlier. The airline operated a fleet of 20 Embraer 175 aircraft out of a hub at Minneapolis-St Paul International airport.
Breeze says in the filing it will begin operations in “mid-October 2020” out of the same location, and supervised by the same Flight Standards District Office of the Federal Aviation Administration.
But the public health crisis, which became a global health crisis earlier this year, has upended some of the new airline’s plans, and stretched out its timeline, the filing says.
“Instead of operating charter services for three months before introducing scheduled service in the winter of 2020 as contemplated in the February application, Breeze will initially operate charter services for six months before entering scheduled service in May of 2021,” the filing reads. “In addition, deliveries of the Airbus A220-300 aircraft produced in Mobile, Alabama, have been postponed until August 2021.”
For initial services, Breeze says it has signed a lease agreement with Nordic Aviation Capital to lease 15 Embraer 190 aircraft, a larger version of the aircraft Compass used.
“From… approximately May 2021 [until] August 2021, Breeze plans to… service 15 cities, most of which connect areas of the country known by the pejorative term ‘fly-over country’,” the airline writes, saying its scheduled operations will include flights to the East Coast, South, Texas and Midwest.
From October 2021, with the new, larger A220s joining the fleet, Breeze intends to launch transcontinental flights that will connect both US coasts.
Breeze is one of two planned new regional carriers which had been announced earlier this year. The other is a yet-to-be named airline, currently based in Houston, backed by former United Airlines executive Andrew Levy.
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