Bradley International Airport launched new nonstop service to Atlanta on Friday, as the airport continues to chase routes to tourism destinations amid recovery from a 15-month pandemic-related travel downturn.
The Frontier Airlines flight from Bradley in Windsor Locks and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport will run four round-trips per week, according to the quasi-public Connecticut Airport Authority (CAA), which oversees Bradley.
“As we reemerge from the pandemic, we are more than ever committed to connecting our passengers to their favorite destinations,” CAA Executive Director Kevin Dillon said. “Frontier Airlines is key to our growing route network and we thank them for their continued vote of confidence in Bradley International Airport.”
Initiation of the Atlanta service began less than a month after CAA announced new nonstop flights from Bradley to Charleston, S.C.; Columbus, Ohio; Norfolk, Va.; and Pittsburgh, Pa. via Breeze AirBreeze Airways, a Salt Lake City-based airline founded by David Neeleman, who also founded several airlines including JetBlue.
The new routes out of Bradley come as the commercial aerospace industry attempts to bounce back from a tough pandemic period during which air travel cratered.
