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Triangle residents looking for a quick island escape will soon have one less option: BermudAir is pulling its twice-weekly flights to Bermuda, cutting off the airport’s only nonstop to the island nation.

The move comes just seven months after the carrier’s splashy debut at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

According to a report from the Triangle Business Journal, the decision was “business related and demand related.”

“Unfortunately, we’re just not seeing the market mature fast enough,” BermudAir spokesperson Andrea Spiegel told TBJ.

“We don’t rule out resuming at some point, but at this time it was just a tough decision we had to make … we’re really at this moment just trying to strengthen where we see the strongest demand.”

BermudAir and RDU officials were unavailable for comment on Friday morning.

The service is slated to end Jan. 2.

The short-lived route highlights the challenges for new airlines of sustaining a “niche” international service in secondary U.S. markets, like Raleigh-Durham.

BermudAir is a young airline, making its debut in September 2023. At one point, it served 10 cities in the U.S. and three in Canada.

But in recent months, it has shrunk its footprint, dropping other routes, like Hartford, Conn., reported Hartford Business.

The carrier uses 71-seat Embraer E175 aircraft, which limit how far it can fly profitably, its cofounder Marty Amick told The N&O in April.

The airline will soon serve just six U.S. markets, including Boston, Baltimore, and the New York area airports (Newark, LaGuardia, and Westchester). Markets in Canada remain unchanged for now.