To read the article visit the Hartford Courant on May 29, 2019. Hartford Courant: 'Attention Connecticut businesses: What are your top air travel destinations? The Connecticut Airport Authority wants to know'
In "Attention Connecticut businesses: What are your top air travel destinations? The Connecticut Airport Authority wants to know," Hartford Courant Business reporter Kenneth R. Gosselin shares CAA work underway on a survey of employers in a wide range of industries about their travel desitnations and budgets.
The survey information, being collected by the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut and MetroHartford Alliance, can be used in discussion with carriers.
"The Connecticut Airport Authority, which oversees Bradley International Airport and other smaller airports, wants to know where companies in the state fly for business, but more importantly: what are the nonstop destinations they can’t reach from a Connecticut airport.
Kevin A. Dillon, the airport authority’s executive director, said gauging the potential of business travel is essential.
“Business travel is usually the core of the most routes at any airport,” Dillon said, with the possible exception of Florida, often dominated by leisure travelers.
Bradley, in Windsor Locks, is the focus for the survey, but the effort also will gauge the potential for returning commercial air service to Groton-New London Airport.
Dillon said there hasn’t been commercial air service out of Groton-New London for more than a decade. But the possibility exists with such major employers in southeastern Connecticut as Electric Boat, the casinos and the military, he said."
To read more, visit the Hartford Courant, "Attention Connecticut businesses: What are your top air travel destinations? The Connecticut Airport Authority wants to know."
