Discount commercial air carrier Breeze Airways will begin flying twice-weekly nonstop round trips between Las Vegas and western Colorado next year, the airline announced Wednesday.
The Cottonwood Heights, Utah-based carrier, which has nonstop flights to and from 10 destinations from Harry Reid International Airport, will begin flying to and from Grand Junction Regional Airport Thursdays and Sundays, beginning Jan. 9.
The airline will use twin-engine, 137-passenger Airbus A220 jets on the route.
Breeze currently serves 12 destinations from Reid International, including nine nonstops connecting Las Vegas with Hartford, Connecticut; Akron-Canton, Ohio; Gulfport-Biloxi; Mississippi; Huntsville, Alabama; Jacksonville and Fort Myers, Florida; Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia; and Syracuse, New York.
