Vermont ski trip or winter getaway to the Florida sun? Two new flights coming to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport later this year will give Marylanders the choice.

Breeze Airways is preparing to land at BWI for the first time, the company has announced, with nonstop service from Baltimore to two stops—Burlington, Vermont, and Vero Beach, Florida — three days each week starting in October.

The new service means that BWI is adding two new destinations to its list of nonstop routes. The addition of another budget carrier to its terminals comes just months after the sudden bankruptcy of Spirit Airlines.

“We focus on affordable, convenient, high-value, low-cost travel,” Lukas Johnson, chief commercial officer for Breeze Airways, said in a phone interview this week. “So Baltimore made a lot of sense.”

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First taking to the skies in 2021, Utah-based Breeze Airways gets travelers in and out of several major hubs, like Washington Dulles International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport, but mostly links smaller, secondary airports and underserved routes.

Their fleet, one of the newest in the country, Johnson said, flies about 80% of its trips on the Eastern Seaboard and already served Burlington and Vero Beach through other airports. Flying to Baltimore was an opportunity to make a connection that didn’t already exist.

Shannetta Griffin, executive director and CEO of the Maryland Aviation Administration, wrote in a statement that the “new service will boost tourism and economic development while providing our passengers with convenient access to attractive destinations.”

Marylanders on the Eastern Shore may already be familiar with the airline. Breeze flies two seasonal routes from the Salisbury Regional Airport in the fall — three times per week to Orlando and twice a week to Fort Lauderdale — with base-level, one-way tickets starting at $59.