Want to get from Connecticut to LaGuardia Airport faster? Delta Airlines has a flight for that — and it quietly unveiled a new route from Bradley International Airport to do it.
The service will begin daily starting Sept. 6, and it will be Delta’s shortest route at 101 miles. Travel blog The Points Guy reports that “Delta Connection partner Endeavor Air will operate the 101-mile route using a CRJ-900 regional jet on up to three daily frequencies.”
Twitter user Hayden Clarkin, the self-titled “Transit Guy,” tweeted about the new route taking off from the Windsor Locks airport to the Queens destination.
Clarkin’s tweet, which has garnered more than 1,400 likes since publishing Monday morning, pointed out that “rail connections are not competitive enough to not allow this policy failure to happen.” It also drew attention to the route that is seemingly in direct competition with train travel.
Transport Research — an account dedicated to the “research and evaluation of transportation policy and planning,” according to its Twitter bio — was among the first to respond to Clarkin with a map of train routes. It also pointed out that “many users of the Hartford airport are from western Massachusetts or Vermont,” areas with no airports, according to Transport Research’s tweet, which makes for a “considerable pre-flight drive” to get to New Haven’s Union Station to take an Amtrak train to LaGuardia.