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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