Frontier Airlines will begin nonstop flights from Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks to Denver beginning next year, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Tuesday.
At a press conference Tuesday morning at Bradley, Malloy said the Denver-based low-cost carrier will debut flights to Colorado’s capital city on March 28. Flights are expected to start at $59.
The flights from Denver to Bradley will operate three days a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.
Frontier launched a Denver-to-Bradley route in March 2007, but pulled the service in Sept. 2008 amid the state’s economic struggles following the Great Recession.
The Colorado carrier returned to Bradley with Milwaukee runs in Sept. 2010 as a subsidiary of Indianapolis-based Republic Airways. However, that route was also cancelled in Sept. 2011.
Tuesday’s announcement is part of the Connecticut Airport Authority’s (CAA) quest to land new routes for the Windsor Locks airfield.
Last week, CAA Executive Director Kevin Dillon said Bradley is trying to add flights to Austin, Jacksonville, Milwaukee, Nashville, Seattle and Jamaica in 2019.
Dillon said CAA is unlikely to add all those routes next year, but said one or two were likely.
According to CAA, Bradley’s new Denver route builds off several successes achieved in 2018.
Earlier this year, CAA completed an ambitious master plan that includes $1.4 billion in projects over the next two decades. The investments are expected to add millions of additional passengers to the state’s largest airfield.
Also, in October, a survey ranked Bradley as the nation’s third best airport, which the governor credited to the formation of CAA. Malloy, at the time of the announcement, said the agency frees the airfield from the “bureaucracy” that has limited its potential in years past.
This story has been updated
