As airlines battled soaring fuel prices last year, Bradley International Airport’s passenger traffic dropped to 6.1 million in 2008 – its lowest level since 2003, when airlines were still reeling from the effects of Sept. 11.
Passenger traffic decreased 6.6 percent in 2008, continuing a freefall from an historic 2005, when 7.4 million passengers passed through Bradley.
As airlines cut long-haul flights in the face of record-high fuel prices, Bradley lost direct flights to Denver, Los Angeles and — until recently — Amsterdam, which was canceled Oct. 1.
Bradley will regain its only trans-Atlantic flight in June, Northwest Airlines announced last December, citing lower fuel prices as the reason.
