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Hartford-Bradley International Airport
11 Schoephoester Rd
Windsor Locks, CT 06096
(860) 292-2000
Windsor Locks, CT 06096
(860) 292-2000
4 reviews for Hartford-Bradley International Airport
I may be biased bc I'm originally from CT, but I don't mind BDL at all. It's a little pricier to fly into than JFK (minus half a star) and their food options close pretty early (minus the other half), but I've found this airport to be a small little oasis in a terminal of air travel hell. It could also be because I'm stuck here 3 hours early before my flights, and damn it all if I don't yelp the sucker.
I find their restrooms to be clean, as i once had to stop in every single one of them due to food poisoning one day...the area is spacious and very easy to get in and out of--the whole place that is, not just the bathroom stalls.
Prices for things are pretty reasonable and the security line is usually painless, no more of a wait than your usual "frisk me up frisk me down" lines.
Sure, at Christmas time or in the winter, it's like any other ice trap in Hoth, but this is the East Coast kids, it's not mother nature in a tube top like LA beckoning you for a bite of her Pinkberry....but it's functional. I've seen some pretty airports in my time, and BDL is not one of them.
And yes, FREE Wi-Fi. SFO or OAK don't even that! Come on!
Grey, industrial ugliness. Horrible food. Crappy weather. Looong delays.
That being said, the security line was one of the shortest I've ever seen, and they didn't even want me to take off my shoes to go through the checkpoint.
I just want to go home...
Edit: I have to give them props for having free WiFi - much more than I can say for any major airports. Luckily most airports are getting on the T-Mobile WiFi hotspot gravy train, so at least I have a unified login and moderately fair pricing across the majors. Reminds me, I need to expense that...
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Quite possibly my least-favorite airport. It's something akin to the brown-eye on the ass-end of NYC and Boston.
Flying in and out of Hartford, CT/Springfield, Mass's Bradley airport always varies somewhere between expensive and inconvenient.
Maybe it's because of the atrocious weather, or the shear expense of living in the Northeast, or simply because there isn't much to do within a 120-mile radius, but this airport is downright close to depressing. The best part of Bradley is that it can take you someplace else.
You also have a 50/50 shot on whether or not your terminal is going to suck. One side is brand new and full of bright lights and shops. The other is the dark side of the moon: dank, ancient, and worn down.
Home to some of the rudest and surliest TSA employees in the nation, as well. Sometimes inexplicable, ungodly-long lines at 5:00am on a Monday.
Flying in and out of the Northeast is a pain, but Bradley can be a total beatdown.
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I seem to remember having a similiar opinion of BDL, that it was ugly and that the weather was crappy...but I haven't been recently. Always props for free wifi.
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