I am flying Avelo from New Haven for the first time this Monday. The mayor of East Haven claims there will be up to one hundred daily passenger flights at New Haven, which is absurd. Up until this past year, there was no passenger service at Tweed-New Haven.
East Haven mayor calls for full environmental impact statement on Tweed Airport expansion plans
By Mark Zaretsky
Oct. 19, 2022
Shelton Herald
"NEW HAVEN — East Haven Mayor Joe Carfora has asked the Federal Aviation Administration to do a full-blown environmental impact statement on the proposed expansion of Tweed New Haven Regional Airport rather than the more limited environmental assessment already underway.
East Haven "has significant concerns regarding the planned expansion and relocation of operations" at Tweed "as described in the Tweed-New Haven Airport Master Plan Update Final Report dated October 2021," Carfora wrote in an Oct. 7 letter to Colleen D'Alessandro, the FAA's regional administrator for the New England Region.
In doing so, Carfora added his official voice as the chief elected official of one of the two municipalities in which Tweed is located to a chorus of previous calls from neighbors in East Haven and New Haven who oppose airport expansion, the 10,000 Hawks grassroots community and environmental group, Connecticut Fund for the Environment and others..."
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