Breeze Comes to Town (But Not With the A220 Yet)

Breeze is an airline that was recently formed by the guy that started up JetBlue.  It has an initial east coast focus but is supposed to gradually expand west.  We do not have scheduled service yet but they seem to also undertake charter operations.  When the airline was announced, it was supposed to use Airbus A220s.  I guess the pandemic made aircraft availability better and they picked up a bunch of Embraer E190s.  The A220s have started to come online but the Embraers are currently the big part of the fleet.

One of them was making a trip to Boeing Field.  Not sure why it was coming but I figured this was worth a look.  I tracked the jet as it lined up for the approach but I hadn’t heard it call in.  At some point, I heard the tower call to ask if they were on frequency and no response.  At this point, it was pretty close in.  I guess, without a clearance, they decided to go around.  They climbed out over the field.  A side effect of this was to cause a Delta 737 that was on approach to SEA to have to also go missed as the Embraer was conflicting with its flight path.  I suspect they were a touch annoyed.

The Embraer then was vectored around for a second approach.  On this one, everything seemed to be a lot more normal.  I heard them call up a decent distance out and they were cleared to land which they did without incident.  The sky blue livery is quite catching and I would like to see one of the A220s at some point soon.  I wonder whether we will get service out here at some point?

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