Myrtle Beach may be best known for its miles of white sand and its self-proclaimed status as the golf capital of the world, but it is quietly becoming a bigger deal for Breeze Airways too. Cirium Diio schedule data shows the South Carolina airport will be Breeze's fifth-busiest airport by flights in the first week of July 2027 — up from eighth in July 2026 and just 15th the year before. A huge expansion is behind the jump.
The all-Airbus A220-300 carrier already launched five Myrtle Beach routes earlier in 2026, from Fort Lauderdale, Islip, Manchester, Orlando and Pittsburgh. Now twelve more are on the way, and half of them link Myrtle Beach with airports that currently have no service at all or lost it when other carriers pulled out — including routes abandoned when Spirit Airlines went under in May 2026.
The first new route starts October 22, 2026, with twice-weekly flights to Atlantic City, an airport left entirely unserved earlier this year after 29 years of Spirit service. Latrobe, near Pittsburgh, follows on February 9, 2027, also twice weekly. Then a big May wave: daily Boston flights begin May 4 (going head-to-head with American and Delta), Portsmouth and Tweed New Haven start May 26, and on May 27 Burlington, Portland and Syracuse all come online. Albany, Columbus and Stewart New York follow on May 28, with Buffalo wrapping things up on July 1.
The scale of the growth is striking. By July 2027 Breeze plans 101 weekly departures from Myrtle Beach, up from 62 a year earlier — a 63% increase across 25 routes, with 11 to 16 outbound flights a day. Eight routes will run at least daily, and the airline says a bigger share of its Myrtle Beach routes will be daily than at any other airport in its network.
Some of these are genuinely thin markets on paper — Burlington, for example, had only around 6,300 round-trip indirect passengers in the year to July 2026. But Breeze is betting, reasonably, that nonstop convenience plus low fares will unlock far more demand than connecting itineraries ever did. And more may be coming: analysis of the airline's typical route length flags Cleveland, New Orleans, Grand Rapids, Louisville and several other currently unserved cities as possible future candidates.
For travellers, this is good news if you're in the US Northeast or Midwest and fancy a budget-friendly beach break. Cities like Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo, Portland and Burlington will get direct summer links to one of America's classic family beach towns — no connections, no long drives. If you live near one of these airports, it's worth checking Breeze's schedule when seats go on sale, since new leisure routes like these often launch with introductory fares and later settle into just a couple of weekly flights. Book early for peak summer, when the twice-weekly frequencies fill up fastest.
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