Breeze Airways adds Dayton and Trenton flights at Fort Lauderdale airport
Breeze added Dayton and Trenton at FLL, widening low-cost options as Spirit shrinks. Dayton fares start at $69, while Trenton begins as a one-stop route.
Breeze Airways added Dayton, Ohio, and Trenton, New Jersey, to its Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport schedule, giving Broward travelers two more ways to fly as Spirit Airlines keeps shrinking its presence. The new routes deepen Breeze’s footprint at FLL just as the airport looks for carriers to absorb some of the low-cost demand Spirit once dominated.
The Dayton flight will be nonstop Mondays through Fridays beginning Oct. 9, with an introductory one-way fare of $69 valid for travel from Oct. 9 through March 23, 2027. The Trenton service will run Thursdays and Sundays starting Sept. 20 as a one-stop trip, and Breeze said fares will vary by date because the route does not get the same introductory discount. Travelers can book both routes through the airline’s website or app, and Breeze’s booking calendar shows availability through March 23, 2027.
For Broward County, the addition matters because FLL carried 32.2 million passengers in 2025, down 8.5% from 2024 after four years of growth. The airport had already been adding service from Breeze earlier in 2026, including eight new nonstop routes and several increased frequencies announced Feb. 24, a sign that the airline is building a schedule in Fort Lauderdale rather than testing one or two isolated markets. Breeze’s June 24-25 expansion also included markets beyond South Florida, with earlier 2026 additions from FLL to places such as Huntsville and Pensacola.
The timing lines up with a major shift in Broward’s air market. On May 2, Spirit Airlines said it had begun an orderly wind-down of operations effective immediately and that all flights had been canceled, a blow to a carrier long tied to Dania Beach and Fort Lauderdale. Breeze’s move does not replace that network one-for-one, but it does add seat capacity and more competition on routes aimed at value-conscious travelers heading to the Midwest and Northeast.
Breeze’s A220-300 jet, the aircraft it uses on many of these routes, seats up to 137 passengers and has a range of 3,400 nautical miles. That gives the airline room to target medium-haul leisure and visiting-friends-and-relatives markets from South Florida, while keeping Fort Lauderdale in the mix as low-cost carriers rework their plans for the fall.
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