Tweed New Haven Regional Airport

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Tweed New Haven Regional Airport

IATA: HVN - ICAO: KHVN
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		City of New Haven
Serves		New Haven, Connecticut
Elevation AMSL		14 ft (4.3 m)
Coordinates		41°15′49.5″N, 72°53′12.5″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
2/20	5,600	1,707	Asphalt
14/32	3,626	1,105	Asphalt

Tweed New Haven Regional Airport (IATA: HVN, ICAO: KHVN), formerly known as Tweed-New Haven Airport, is a municipal airport offering commercial and general service in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. It is partially located in the town of East Haven.

US Airways Express, which formerly flew from New Haven to both Philadelphia and Baltimore airports, now offers daily flights in and out of Tweed New Haven to Philadelphia. The airport is also popular with both private aircraft and companies providing flights for tourists who want to view the Connecticut shoreline from the air.

The airport was also served by Comair, a Delta Connection carrier that offered service to and from Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport. This service was discontinued in January 2006. In the 1990s, Tweed had regular United Airlines non-stop jet service to Chicago.

Tweed was dedicated on August 29, 1931, as the New Haven Municipal Airport. It was renamed Tweed in 1961 in honor of John H. Tweed, its first airport manager

The future of the airport has been the subject of disagreement between the city of New Haven and the town of East Haven. New Haven has pushed for airport runway expansion, which would be required to attract more commercial air service. However, many East Haven residents are opposed to any airport expansion, claiming that further expansion would destroy the mostly residential neighborhoods surrounding the airport.

Numerous famous people have used Tweed New Haven, including Presidents George W. Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, and John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Maria Sharapova, Frank Sinatra, and Queen Elizabeth II. During major events at Yale University, the general aviation ramp is often crowded with private jets - for the 1997 graduation, the corporate jets of Coca Cola and Procter & Gamble were parked nose to nose on the tarmac. The airport also gets heavy use during the annual Pilot Pen Tennis tournament.

Pan Am Clipper Connection, which is operated by Boston-Maine Airways, announced in early February 2007 that it would begin non-stop services to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Bedford, Massachusetts, Elmira, New York, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire and began services on March 8th.

[edit] Airlines and non-stop destinations

Pan Am Clipper Connection operated by Boston-Maine Airways (Baltimore/Washington, Bedford, Elmira, Portsmouth)
US Airways
- US Airways Express operated by Piedmont Airlines (Philadelphia)

[edit] Former airlines and destinations served

American Airlines (Newark)
Business Express Airlines (Boston, Bridgeport)
Continental Airlines
- Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines (Newark)
Delta Air Lines
- Delta Connection operated by Comair (Cincinnati/N. Kentucky)
Eastern Airlines (Baltimore/Washington)
Newair (New York/LGA, Washington/National, and Boston)
Ocean Airlines (Atlantic City and Washington)
Pilgrim Airlines (New York/JFK, New York/LaGuardia and Boston)
United Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, White Plains)
- United Express operated by Air Wisconsin (Chicago-O'Hare)
US Airways
- US Airways Express (Nantucket)
- US Airways Express operated by Piedmont Airlines (Washington-Reagan)