$2.5 Million Fed Subsidy Lands At Tweed

Politics 101 in action. Maybe 50 jobs created at HVN, the positive economic impact that we hear, show the evidence. Ill wait.

I miss having another forum to comment in--- the Register. I think they allowed more freedom of commenting than the NHI. This is one of the issues that Register readers focused on and I miss the variety of thought.
I hope the NHI will provide some stories on what the benefits are of Tweed other than convenience for revelers going to Florida. What tangible benefits have been seen? How much revenue has Tweed generated for New Haven? Not AVPORT.

The airport expansion of the runway and the moving of the terminal to the East Haven side is a done deal. This grant from the Feds for the new terminal signals that.
Now we should push for funding from the feds to mitigate flooding issues town wide, and to address pollution in the airline industry as a whole, and specifically at Tweed for all airport environmental issues to mitigate and improve any items of concern.

Picking up on Heathers point, the opera aint over till the fat lady sings. In government, sometimes not even then. But the expansion is close to a done deal.

A number of my friends have raised well-reasoned arguments against the expansion. But I think that at this point, the prudent course of action is to minimize the current and future environmental impacts of the airport. This does not preclude an appeal of the FAA decision. But I doubt that such an appeal would be successful. Even if the Supreme Court modifies or reverses Chevron, this in itself would not affect the decision.

Tweed is doing about 1 millon passengers a year since Nov. 2021. Where were all these Hawks when the Dash 8 was replaced with the CRJ 200 50 passengers, The CRJ 700 with 66 passengers was the next hint. What sold it for me was the 76 passenger Republic 175. Basically a 737 without the middle seats. Mr Levy was paying attention. I feel it isnt the mile long runway that hinders Tweeds success. It has always been the crap terminal a new one will surely interest others. The governor stated he needed another good airport in this state and even he realized it isnt going to be Sikorsky.

What Tweed needs is have Biden land at Tweed and see the crowded masses packed in a make shift waiting room and have him declare that he felt like he just landed in a third world country. I think the 8 plus billion dollar renovations at LaGuardia began the day after the then VP made a trip to New York.

Avelo turns a profit, Breeze losing millions. https://thepointsguy.com/news/avelo-airlines-first-profit/

@FromtheEastside, Bradley tried many times with millions in state money to get flights to Europe. Many years ago the state paid Northwest airlines to offer flights to Amsterdam. When the money ran out, so did Northwest.
Several reasons why Bradley has issues in attracting flights to Europe. 1. Having JFK and Boston Logan airports bracket the state with scores of airlines and non stops to Europe means many more options exist than Bradley. 2. The market surrounding Bradley is small and those other two airports are easy to reach.
Bradley is a good regional airport for domestic travel.