A second airline will begin offering nonstop flights from RDU to Utah this fall
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- Breeze adds twice-weekly nonstop RDU–Provo service starting Oct. 2.
- Delta flies daily between RDU and Salt Lake City International Airport.
- Breeze expands RDU network to 40 nonstop destinations and has set up a crew base.
Triangle travelers will have a second option for flying nonstop to Utah starting in October.
Breeze Airways will begin nonstop flights between Raleigh-Durham International Airport and the airport in Provo, about an hour south of Salt Lake City. The flights will take place twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays, starting Oct. 2.
Delta Air Lines flies daily between RDU and its hub at Salt Lake City International Airport.
Breeze is by far the fastest-growing airline at RDU, adding flights to new destinations almost every month. So far this year, the carrier had already announced new service between RDU and five cities: San Antonio, Texas; Madison, Wisconsin; Birmingham, Alabama; Tallahassee, Florida; and Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The addition of Provo brings the number of nonstop destinations for Breeze from RDU to 40, including its first international flight from the Triangle to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, last week. A second international flight, to Montego Bay, Jamaica, has been postponed until December because of damage on the island from Hurricane Melissa last fall.
For Breeze, RDU is now the busiest of the more than 80 airports in the airline’s network. The carrier more than doubled the number of passengers it served at RDU last year to nearly 660,000 and has established a crew base at the airport that will eventually have more than 200 pilots and flight crew.
Breeze favors routes not served by other airlines. That sometimes means it flies to an airport near or on the edge of a large metropolitan area, such as White Plains outside New York, Orange County near Los Angeles and now Provo in Utah.
Breeze is headquartered in Cottonwood Heights, a suburb of Salt Lake.
