Utah’s Breeze Airways adds first E190

Breeze Airways (MXY, Salt Lake City) has taken delivery of its first E190, one of fifteen to be dry-leased from Nordic Aviation Capital, as it inches towards the launch of scheduled operations. N90NA (msn 19000070) was registered in the United States on January 29, 2021. It was operated by Air Canada (AC, Montréal Trudeau) through September 2019 and subsequently stored at Tucson Int’l airport, the ch-aviation fleets history module shows. While ADS-B websites have not tracked the aircraft since then, it was spotted in late December 2020 at San José Juan Santamaría in Costa Rica in Breeze Airways’ full livery and with its American registration. Its current whereabouts are unknown. Breeze Airways did not respond when asked for comment. According to the ch-aviation fleets advanced module, Nordic Aviation Capital owns a total of 118 E190s in various variants, of which 25 are currently without an operator. Fourteen of them were previously operated by Air Canada. In late December 2020, David Neeleman-backed Breeze Airways acquired its first E195 in the form of N190BZ (msn 19000660). The aircraft, which is owned by Elevate Capital Partners and sub-leased from another one of Neeleman’s airlines, Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras (AD, Sao Paulo Viracopos), is currently parked at Islip, Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows. In its most recent regulatory filing submitted to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) in late December 2020, Breeze Airways disclosed that it planned to sub-lease at least three E195s from Azul. Besides the growing fleet of Embraer regional jets, Breeze Airways has a firm order for sixty A220-300s from Airbus Canada. The start-up has yet to complete certification but tentatively plans to launch operations in March 2021.