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Smaller airports get attention of foreign carriers

Boom in number of flyers, congestion at big airports are some of the reasons

Travellers outside the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport. The addition of new routes has been noticeable in the US but is also significant in Europe and Asia. (Photo: BLOOMBERG)
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Travellers outside the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport. The addition of new routes has been noticeable in the US but is also significant in Europe and Asia. (Photo: BLOOMBERG)

Christine Negroni
For as long as airlines have been crossing the oceans, airline passengers have had to go to big city airports to catch their overseas flights. So users of the US’ 53rd-busiest airport, in this small town in the suburbs of Hartford, were surprised this fall when Aer Lingus, the flag carrier of Ireland, began flights to Europe.

“It puts us into a different class of airport having that,” said Kevin Dillon, executive director of the airport, Bradley International. “There are not a whole lot of airports this size that have trans-Atlantic service. It put us on the map.”

Warwick, Rhode Island, with