The CAA board, citing uncertainties about state funding, at its regular meeting voted unanimously to suspend those talks for the foreseeable future and focus on the half-dozen airports the organization already runs. The deal between Bridgeport and the CAA over Sikorsky, in the works in some form since at least late 2021, appears to be a casualty of a last-minute change to the new two-year state budget that lawmakers finalized in early June. That fiscal plan included the elimination of a tax on airplane fuel, giving carriers that fly in and out of Connecticut to CAA and non-CAA airports a break. Established a decade ago to take over running state-owned airports from the Department of Transportation, the CAA manages Bradley International in Windsor Locks and the smaller Danielson, Groton/New London, Hartford/Brainard, Waterbury/Oxford and Windham facilities. Dillon said the budget for those five smaller airports is currently about $4 million in the red.
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