Hartford Bradley was the 100th airport I flew through on my 100 Airports project.1
While not a large airport, it’s still a mostly modern terminal that felt nice and open. From looking at historic imagery while drawing its terminal silhouette, the terminal configuration has changed a bit over the last several decades, resulting in its current two-pier configuration.
Concourse for Gates 1–12
Following the trend I’ve seen in a lot of other airports recently, Bradley has also just recently opened a new consolidated rental car center with all of the agencies in a single garage; it’s still a small enough airport that they had room to build it just next to the existing terminal parking, connected to the terminal by a pedestrian skybridge. Oddly enough, it connects at the departures level rather than the arrivals level; I ended up having to walk at ground level instead because I automatically tried to go past the baggage claim area (despite having no checked bag to claim) to get to the rental car counters, like I have to at most other airports.
Overall, it seems to be a good airport, and I’d have no complaints about flying through there again.
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While I was collecting my 100 airports, my flight log only went back to 2001, so BDL is the 100th airport I’ve visited since 2001. I’ve since added some older flights to my flight log, so my actual 100th airport visited is Miami (MIA). ↩︎