Things in the Sky

The inaugural BDL-AMS flight. Photo courtesy of Dan Vincent.

The Hartford Courant reported Saturday that the city would lose its one direct European flight, which was a Northwest flight to Amsterdam served with a 757. Northwest dropped the route in October, but said it would be coming back in the summer. Well, Delta says that’s no longer the case. The annoying part for airport management is that they put aside $500,000 to help advertise the route, and had already started spending it.

Things haven’t been that great for Hartford, either. Delta cut the direct flight to Los Angeles, and I think service to Indianapolis is going away soon. Frontier and Midwest have left the airport as well.

I had really hoped that the route would succeed for selfish reasons. Even though I knew such a scenario would be unlikely, I hoped that this route would work out and maybe Norhtwest or another carrier would think that it would work if litle old PVD got a European flight as well.

Anyway, travelers in New England are now stuck with flying out of Boston or JFK if they want to fly internationally without a domestic plane change.