HVN continues to be the most underutilized airport in the country. There are almost 4 million potential enplanements but they are all leaked out to other facilities. Bradley is located in a remote area and despite the State of Connecticuts attempt to get Fairfield county pax there no one uses it from that part of the state. Bradley is also operated by the State hence the fiasco with operations up there. Case in point, the State offered NW $500,000 to operate BDL-AMS service and they took the money and ran. One day after their announcement they outsourced their operations there.

Tweed Airport is the best kept secret in aviation. It's one mile off the highway and has millions of people within a 100 mile radius. United understood the potential for jet service right after deregulation in 1978 and tried unsucessfully to operate 727 service to Chicago until the Mayor at that time Ben DiLieto chased them out. Look at Manchester New Hampshire and Burlington Vermont how those cities thrived after their airports were enhanced.

United tried again with 737-300 and 500 service to Chicago in 1990-1994 but again the city impeded their success. Too many flights were canceled as United had to work around the trees aorund the airport which the neighbors wouldn't cut and no one at the city would do anything about it

Southwest looked at the airport in the 90's as it fit their parameters but the infrastructure was not there and they chose Bradley.

Continental should wake up and fly ERJ-135 to Cleveland and discontinue their Colgan operations at BDL. They would capture the very affulent Fairfield county pax

Continental had 4 flights a day from Tweed to EWR in the 80;s and 90's and were quite successful before all the ATC delays at EWR