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KHVN New Haven Regional

Airport , New Haven , Connecticut Tweed-New Haven Regional Airport ( IATA : HVN , ICAO : KHVN , FAA LID : HVN ) is a public airport three miles southeast of downtown New Haven , in New Haven County , Connecticut . The airport is partly located in the City of New Haven , which owns the airport , and partly in the town of East Haven .
American Eagle , which flew from New Haven to Philadelphia and Reagan National Airport in Washington , D . C ., now is the only passenger airline at New Haven , flying to Philadelphia . Tweed Airport is popular with private aircraft and companies carrying tourists who want to view the Connecticut shoreline . During events at Yale University , the general aviation ramp is often crowded with private jets – during the 1997 commencement , the corporate jets of Coca Cola and Procter & Gamble were parked nose to nose . The airport also gets heavy use during the annual New Haven Open at Yale tennis tournament . According to the FAA Air Traffic Activity System ( ATADS ) database , for calendar year 2015 , Tweed hosted some 39,681 aircraft operations . Each takeoff and landing counts as an aircraft operation .
General aviation operations at the airport are handled by the Fixed-Base Operator , Robinson Aviation , Inc , which has been providing FBO services at the airport since 1989 . Services offered include on-site maintenance , flight training via American Flight Academy , and aircraft rental in addition to normal ground handling , fueling and concierge services . General aviation accounts for the majority of traffic at the airport , catering to corporate , charter , and private use aircraft of all sizes .
KORH Worcester Regional Airport Worcester , Massachusetts Worcester Regional Airport ( IATA : ORH , ICAO : KORH , FAA LID : ORH ) is a public airport located three miles ( 5 km ) west of the central business district of Worcester , Massachusetts .
On April 3 , 2013 , it was announced that JetBlue Airways will offer daily flights to Orlando , Florida and Fort Lauderdale , Florida , starting November 7 , 2013 . This came after over a year of negotiating
with the airline that included a competition among local residents to help advertise the city . This became the first mainline service out of Worcester in over a decade . The airline currently uses the 100 seat Embraer 190 and the 150 seat Airbus A320 . With the airport ’ s current terminal facility JetBlue can operate two aircraft at a time with the pair of jetways and ticket counters .
Worcester Regional Airport was used for shooting of the films Captain Phillips , Knight and Day , The Judge and The Sea of Trees .
In the calendar year of 2015 , JetBlue carried an estimated 119,000 passengers between the two destinations , which averages to about 85 % capacity per flight . The airline has carried approximately 248,000 passengers ( as of December 2015 ) since starting service out of Worcester . For 12-month period ending September 30 , 2015 , the airport had 40,207 aircraft operations , an average of 110 per day : 92 % general aviation , 4 % scheduled commercial , 3 % military and 2 % air taxi . There are 74 aircraft based at this airport : 93 % single engine and 7 % multi-engine .
The general aviation community is served by the Rectrix Aerodrome Center FBO .
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