Vernon, east of the river
Up the hill from the river, book a ride from Vernon to Bradley Airport, reserved in Hartford
Vernon, CT
Sedan, up to 3 riders from $115
SUV, up to 6 riders from $150
per car, each way, plus Connecticut sales tax: about $122 and $160 with the 6.35% tax.
From any street in Vernon, you can book a ride from Vernon to Bradley Airport through the office in Hartford, CT, and the request goes to one car company. Vernon sits on the hills past Manchester, so the roads climb and the driveways can be steep. Tell the form your house, your flight and your bags, and the car company answers with its own written fare. Nothing is reserved until you say yes and it confirms in writing.
One Connecticut car company with its own livery permit quotes, drives and is paid for each ride; it pays the office in Hartford a set amount for every ride it accepts, and riders pay the office nothing.
Snow, dark mornings and October roads
A December pickup at five in the morning in Vernon usually means black sky, a cold car and maybe fresh snow on a sloped driveway. The driver sees only what you write down, so say whether the car should wait at the street or come up to the garage, and which door you will walk out of. In October the hill roads fill with people looking at the leaves on weekends, and the car company sets its pickup knowing that.
For an early flight, send the request the day before, by 6:45 p.m. if the pickup is before 9 a.m., so it goes out in the 7 p.m. run. A few lines in the request make the morning easier for the driver:
- the building door or gate code, if your complex has one
- front door, side door or garage, whichever you use
- a note if the driveway is steep or not plowed by then
- the flight number and its scheduled time
Landing late and heading back up the hill
When you fly home, the driver typically waits for you inside the terminal, at the meeting spot the car company names in its written confirmation. As of October 2026, cars may not sit at the curb, so collect your bags first and then text or call the number on that confirmation. Put your flight number and scheduled landing time in the request so the company knows which arrival to plan the pickup around.
After 7:30 p.m. the office phone is closed. For a late landing, the number printed on the car company's confirmation is the one to call, and the same number covers a changed landing time or a bag that went missing at the belt.
Back roads, condos, the town center
The car comes to any street address within Vernon: a house on a back road, an apartment off the main routes, a condo near the town center. Neighborhoods with their own names still count as Vernon and carry the Vernon fare. What decides it is the town printed on your property tax bill, because every Connecticut address belongs to exactly one town, and that town sets the figure on the price card. If your mail says something else, go by the tax bill.
A relative on the other side of the river, close to the airport, can reserve a ride from Windsor to Bradley Airport from that town's page, where the Windsor figure and its own neighbors on the roll are printed for a house there.
Towns beside Vernon on the roll
Bolton from $130 · Ellington from $110 · Manchester from $115 · South Windsor from $105 · Tolland from $135.