Bradley Airport

Bradley International Airport is implementing changes as people slowly return to traveling during the COVID-19 pandemic. The new initiative, called “BDL Cares,” is an effort to make the airport safe for passengers who are flying in and out of Bradley. The program is part of an added initiative to measures the airport put into place at the beginning of the…

Bradley Airport has been open for business throughout this pandemic but the small numbers of passengers going through the airport are having an impact

There has been a major impact on passenger activity at Bradley International Airport during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’ve had a significant drop in passenger traffic here at Bradley,” said Kevin Dillon, executive director of the Connecticut Airport Authority (CAA), which operates Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks. The CAA has been closely monitoring the daily TSA security checkpoint data...

The federal government is providing millions of dollars in aid to Connecticut’s 11 airports due to impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had.   U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao said the Federal Aviation Administration will award $30,344,477 to 11 airports in Connecticut to help respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency. Most of the funding will go to Bradley…

Bradley International Airport is seeing a significant impact in passenger traffic from the coronavirus pandemic

A special doll that keeps a little girl connected to her father who is in the military disappeared somewhere between Bradley Airport and Atlanta and her family posted that it has been found. The doll, a Daddy Doll, belongs to a little girl named Kenley and it has a special good night message that her daddy recorded before he left….

Bradley International Airport is included in the Transportation Security Administration’s Top 10 list of most unusual finds from security checkpoints in 2019. The TSA on Friday released the list and it says that an electrical circular saw seized at Bradley Airport was sixth on the list.   The TSA said a traveler showed up at the Bradley International Airport checkpoint…

State police arrested a West Hartford woman who is accused of pushing a Spirit Airlines employee at Bradley Airport and grabbing an attendant. Troopers assigned to the airport were called around 4 p.m. Thursday and told a person on a Spirit Airlines plane that was heading to Ft. Myers, Florida had pushed a Spirit employee, police said. The shift supervisor…

There were some flight delays and cancellations in and out of Bradley International Airport on Monday morning and officials from the airport said there are still a small number of delays, but there are no cancelations this afternoon.

Natalie’s Candy Jar, a self-serve candy store located at several airports throughout the country, has opened one in Connecticut and it’s at Bradley International Airport.

The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its preliminary report on the crash of a vintage plane at Bradley Airport that killed seven people and injured seven others on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 2.

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United States Senator Richard Blumenthal is asking the Federal Aviation Administration to review safety exemptions for vintage planes after the fatal crash of a B-17 bomber in Connecticut last week.

Stafford/Somers/East Windsor football coach Brian Mazzone lost his father, 66-yard-old Gary Mazzone, in the B-17 plane crash at Bradley Airport on Wednesday. On Saturday, he did exactly what he would have if he hadn’t: coach his football team to a win.

Families of the victims of the B-17 crash at Bradley Airport are trying to find ways to carry on with their daily lives even though finding that “new normal” won’t come easy. Gabrielle Lucivero shows how the son of crash victim, Gary Mazzone, is finding that support on the football field.

As the NTSB continues its investigation into the B-17 crash at Bradley Airport, the plane’s engines were removed from the crash site on Friday.

The Collings Foundation is suspending its flight operations and Wings of Freedom tour following the B17 crash at Bradley International Airport that killed seven people and injured eight others on Wednesday.

State police have identified the people who were killed and injured when a vintage World War II aircraft crashed at Bradley Airport in Windsor Locks Wednesday morning and the investigation into what caused that crash is just beginning.

Steve Dearborn was supposed to be on the vintage World war II era B-17 that crashed at Bradley Airport and was there to witness the horrific tragedy. He said he believes not getting a seat on that aircraft saved his life.