Summary
A study projected a financial break even of 150,000 passengers by 2013 and a 962,000 baseline capacity passenger utilization by 2020 for Tweed-New Haven airport. According to the study, this growth would take place at an average annual growth rate of 20.7 percent. Allowing for future planes that would average twice as large as the current ones, Tweed could expect 15 flights per day when it would be breaking even and 90 flights per day when it would reach its 962,000 baseline maximum. There seem to me to be some realities that might make these projections turn out to be pie in the sky. Tweed is small, slightly over four-tenths of a square mile. Its two runways are short and all four approach corridors place low-flying aircraft over residential areas. Expansion to the north and the southeast is physically possible, but only over the dead bodies of the people of East Haven and their elected representatives.
New parking for the boom will eat up a large amount of precious ground. Townsend and Woodward avenues and the cross streets leading to Tweed will be hard-pressed to handle the increased traffic, and the residents will be hard-pressed to tolerate it.See the full content of this document
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Letter to the Editor: Just Fold Tweed Into Sikorsky
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