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BRADLEY RENEWAL ISN'T GROUNDED YET

 




Bradley International got the one-two punch last week: It will lose its much-ballyhooed nonstop flights to Los Angeles and Amsterdam this fall.

But those setbacks aren't enough - at least not yet - to make the airport scrap any part of its long-term redevelopment plans, including a replacement for Terminal B and a new parking garage.

Kiran Jain, the airport's marketing and route development manager, said the flight cancellations are entirely related to the rising price of fuel, not the marketing of the airport.

"The master plan will stay on track," Jain said Monday.

Bradley is now nearing the completion of the first phase of construction, the $200 million expansion of Terminal A, which includes 23 gates and the addition of a 3,500-space parking garage, opened in 2001.

Construction on Terminal A is expected to be finished by early 2009.

The next phase includes the closing and eventual demolition of Bradley's Murphy Terminal, or Terminal B, built in 1951 and the oldest operating airport terminal in the country. The terminal could be torn down by 2011.

Two years ago, state transportation officials said the second new terminal could be ready by 2014. But now the timetable for building a second terminal will depend on passenger traffic, state aviation administrator Stephen Korta said.

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