Where does Breeze Airways fly to and from Vero Beach Airport?
Here are the Breeze Airways destinations offered monthly at Vero Beach Regional Airport.
- The Vero Beach Regional Airport expects to have three airlines offering flights by February.
- Airport officials plan to create an employee-only parking lot to free up short-term parking spaces.
- City officials are discussing leasing out airport property with a company to develop a paid long-term parking area.
VERO BEACH — With additional air traffic anticipated in early 2026, when a third commercial airline lands at Vero Beach Regional Airport, officials are contemplating how best to handle additional traffic on the ground.
That could mean adding paid parking at the airport.
“As much as no one wants to hear that, it’s probably inevitable further down the road,” Airport Director Todd Scher told the City Council Oct. 14.
Breeze Airways, which has served Vero Beach since 2023, is the only passenger airline with flights here. That changes Dec. 11, when JetBlue begins New York and Boston flights from Vero Beach. American Airlines plans to launch service to Charlotte, North Carolina, beginning Feb. 12.
Available parking is of concern, particulaly for patrons of airport-based businesses such as C.J. Cannon’s Restaurant and Lounge. To increase capacity at the airport’s short-term, three-hour parking lot, airport officials plan to create employee-only parking at the paved long-term parking Lot A, he said. The parking lot, with 54 parking spaces, including one that is ADA-compliant, would be reserved for airport employees, as well as employees of airport-based businesses such as Avis car rental and C.J. Cannon’s.
The city plans to increase enforcement of the three-hour limit in the short-term lot and the employee-only lot in November, allowing vehicles currently parked in Lot A to move, he said. Vehicles are allowed to stay in long-term parking lots for up to 21 days.
This should free up about 40-45 short-term parking spaces a day, Scher said.
“We think that’s going to be of immedicate value,” Scher said.
The city Airport Commission is expected to hear a presentation Oct. 17 from a company interested in leasing airport property to develop and maintain long-term paid parking, Scher said.
Details have yet to be finalized, but the city wants to provide a suggested price range for the company to charge, Scher said.
“We don’t want to limit their ability to be profitable,” Scher said. “(But) we kind of want to make that transition of free parking to not-free parking as painless as possible.”
Colleen Wixon is the Indian River County watchdog reporter for TCPalm and Treasure Coast Newspapers.
