Connecticut’s Department of Transportation announced Saturday it has received a $17.4 million grant from the Federal Railroad Administration to build a new Hartford Line railroad station in Windsor Locks.
The largest airport in Connecticut will keep its name after a study found that there was no decisive benefit to making a change.
Bradley International Airport in Connecticut has broken ground on a $210 million transportation center, promised to be a “huge customer service improvement.”
A sign of Connecticut’s strengthening state economy, the Connecticut Airport Authority announced that Hartford’s Bradley International Airport saw passenger traffic grow by 3.6 percent in 2018.
Bradley International Airport leaders are pushing for flights to Seattle, Phoenix and the Caribbean this year, according to a formal set of 2019 goals adopted by the Connecticut Airport Authority board this month. Tucked into the goals was a proposal to consider a new name for the airport.
Aer Lingus service at Bradley International Airport will continue for at least four more years under a new agreement made with the state. The airline will also place one of its first four A321neoLR on the Bradley to Dublin route, a new and more spacious aircraft.
Low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle is promising cheap trans-Atlantic flights when it starts service to Europe this summer from Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York’s Hudson Valley.
Ultra-low cost carrier Spirit Airlines will launch operations at Bradley International Airport starting this spring, offering direct, nonstop service to several destinations, including Myrtle Beach, Orlando and Ft. Lauderdale.
