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漏 vepar5 鈥?stock.adobe Breeze Airways, a new U.S.- based airline providing low-cost, nonstop service to mid-size markets, will invest $5.2 million to establish an operations center in the City of Norfolk.The company
stanley quencher targets underserved and unserved cities without nonstop service and has identified dozens of route opportunities from
stanley cup Norfolk International Airport. Norfolk will be one of Breeze Airways first four operations bases in the United States, and the airline also plans to offer flights out of Richmond International Airport.Virginia successfully competed with several other locations for the project, which will create 116 new jobs.Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Breeze Airways is a start-up airline established by David Neeleman, a founder of multiple airlines, including JetBlue. Its targets include inbound travel, local leisure and business travel, and millennial travelers.Breeze Airways will operate mostly in markets in which no other airlines currently compete. All employees, which will include airline crew and aircraft maintenance workers, will remain local. The company plans to offer flights beginning in June 2021.Additional information about todays announcement is available at聽flybreeze. Breeze is excited to be announcing two destinations in Virginia:聽Norfolk and Richmond, 聽said David Neeleman, founder and CEO of Breeze Airways. Norfolk, particularly, is a strong inbou
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Not even in 2001, 13 years ago when AAA began keeping holiday travel records, did as many Virginians travel for Independence Day as will in 2014, according to AAA.AAA estimates a record 1.16 million 1,158,038 Virginians will trav
stanley quencher el to celebrate our nations independence between Wednesday, July 2聽 聽and Sunday, July 6.聽 Not only is that number record breaking, but it also represents the first increase for July 4聽since 2011.The vast majority of Virginia travelers,聽over a million聽 1,003,726 , will hit the roads,聽the most ever on record despite the highest Independence Day gas prices in six years.聽Virginia Holiday Travel Forecast Highlights:Forecast is up 1.9 percent from 1.14 million in 2013.Increasing consumer confidence is fueling h
stanley cup usa igher spending and the number of travelers, as many are more comfortable using credit cards to pay for their holiday get-a-way.Road trips will account for 87 percent of travelers, a two percent increase from 2013.Holiday air travel up 1.7 percent while airfares are down five percent from 2013.Hotel rates at AAA Two Diamond and Three
stanley cup Diamond properties are up to 15 percent from 2013. Overall holiday travel has been steadily, yet slowly, inching up since 2008, however, this July 4th聽the numbers are not only a post-recession high, but are the highest since AAA began forecasting with its current model 13 years ago, said Martha Mitchell Meade, Manager, Public and Government Affairs for AAA Mid-Atlantic.聽 This record high number of travelers, despite th
