Barnes, Westover, Bradley airports look for MGM Springfield casino boost
MGM Springfield’s executives have been out to visit and at least one corporate jet from Las Vegas is scheduled to arrive this weekend and stay over at least one night. But it remains to bee seen how much business MGM Springfield, the $960 million resort casino that opens Friday, will bring to Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport, Westover Metropolitan Airport in Chicopee and Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. “We certainly are hoping to feel the effects of the casino,” said Kelly DeRonda, manager at Rectrix, the fixed-base operator providing aircraft services at Barnes. It’s hard to tell ahead of time just how busy they’ll be, said DeRonda and Ted Hanna, airport manager at Westover.