(Breeze Airways) Utah-based budget carrier Breeze Airways is founder David Neeleman's fifth airline and will officially start flying this month. Neeleman also founded U.S. carrier JetBlue, as well as Utah-based Morris Air (later sold to Southwest), Brazil's Azul and Canada's WestJet.
Leia Larsen is a sixth generation Utahn and a water and land use reporter reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune. She has covered environment, energy and political issues throughout the West. When she’s not chasing the news, Leia can be found exploring the Wasatch Mountains, sleeping in the desert or rooting around her garden.