Commercial Jets Return to New Haven Airport

Commercial Jets Return to New Haven Airport
Newsday, NY
 
February 24, 2004, 8:19 AM EST


NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- For the first time since 1996,
commercial jet service is returning to Tweed-New Haven
airport. 

Delta Air Lines announced Monday that beginning May
27, one of its Delta Connection carriers, Comair, will
fly three daily round-trip jet flights between Tweed
and Delta's Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International
Airport hub. 

Delta Connection will be the first new airline to
serve New Haven since United, United Express and
Continental Express all pulled out in 1996. 

"This is a huge milestone for the city and the
region," Tweed-New Haven Airport Authority Chairman
Lawrence DeNardis said. 

Delta will add its Cincinnati service to US Airways
Express existing turboprop service to Philadelphia. 

The Delta service will be on 40-seat Bombardier
Canadair regional jets, according to Joe Kauffmann,
Delta Connection-Comair director of corporate
marketing and communications. 

Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and Bruce Alexander, Yale
University vice president for New Haven and state
affairs, said the deal was sealed after businesses
guaranteed $1.9 million in revenues for the airline,
an effort that Alexander led. 

"What it does is, for the first time in nearly a
decade it provides jet service to a major hub,"
DeStefano said. "It puts Tweed in a place where it can
be a meaningful factor in supporting business." 



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