Irish airline Aer Lingus will resume its nonstop service from Bradley International Airport to Dublin, Ireland Sunday, following a service interruption because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, another airline, Avelo, is celebrating its one millionth customer at Tweed New Haven Airport.
That customer Friday was aboard Avelo Flight 357 departing late afternoon for Fort Myers, Florida.
Avelo Founder, Chairman and CEO Andrew Levy marked the occasion at Tweed by surprising everyone aboard – 182 customers – with a free roundtrip ticket, the airline said.
Back at Bradley, the Aer Lingus flight is expected to arrive at 4:30 p.m. Sunday March 26.
Aer Lingus suspended service at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks in 2020 as the pandemic cut deeply into air travel, especially business travel.
Aer Lingus said when it announced it would resume flights that the service to Dublin with connections to 28 destinations in the United Kingdom and Europe would resume March 26 and will operate seasonally through October. The airline will then evaluate passenger traffic and determine when service will resume year-round.
Also at Bradley, low-fare air carrier Breeze Airways last month launched another sale campaign, promoting discount fares on 14 nonstop destinations from Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport; Breeze’s “Fresh-Take: Spring Break” promotion fares had to be purchased by Sunday, March 5 for travel between April 4 and May 23.
A major improvement project at Bradley International Airport that is part of $230 million in upcoming renovations got another financial boost last month from the federal government’s infrastructure program aimed at improving air travel.
Bradley will receive a $5 million grant in a second round of funding from the Federal Aviation Administration. The grant comes on top of about $20 million from a first round of funding last summer.
The state’s largest commercial airport will construct a system that will transport checked baggage along a mile-long network of conveyor belts to a new building near the Sheraton hotel for security screening. The $185 million project will remove baggage screening from the terminal lobby, freeing up space for at least 16 new airline ticket counters.
Reporting by Kenneth R. Gosselin is included n this story.
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