Eppley Airfield

Eppley Airfield
Eppley Airfield
	FAA airport diagram
IATA: OMA – ICAO: KOMA – FAA LID: OMA OMA Location of the Airport in Omaha, Nebraska
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Omaha Airport Authority
Serves	Greater Omaha, Nebraska
Elevation AMSL	983 ft / 300 m
Coordinates	41°18.12′N 95°53.62′W / 41.302°N 95.89367°W
Website	flyoma.com
Runways
Statistics (2009, 2010)
Passengers (2010)	4,287,428
Aircraft operations (2009)	111,155
Cargo in pounds (2009)	102,149,802
Mail in pounds (2009)	54,305,909
	Sources: FAA and airport web site

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Eppley Airfield (IATA: OMA, ICAO: KOMA, FAA LID: OMA) is a medium hub airport three miles (5 km) northeast of the central business district of Omaha, a city in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States. It is the largest airport in Nebraska. In addition to the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, Eppley Airfield serves eastern Nebraska, western Iowa, northern Kansas, Missouri, and South Dakota.

The airport is named for Eugene C. Eppley, the Omaha Eppley Hotel magnate, from whose estate $1 million was used to convert the Omaha Municipal Airport into a jet port in 1959/1960.^[3]

The airport occupies 2,650 acres (1,070 ha) and handles about 397 commercial flights a week.^[when?] The terminal building has two concourses with 20 gates total. Midwest Airlines established a focus city at Eppley Airfield, which has expanded since that airline's merger with Frontier Airlines. As of November 2011, all regularly scheduled flights from Eppley Airfield terminate within the United States. The airport handled more than 4.2 million passengers in 2010. Southwest Airlines is the largest carrier, handling about 27 percent of passengers; United Airlines is the second-largest carrier, handling about 24 percent of passengers.^[2] The airport is served by MAT bus #16.

[edit] Location

Eppley Airfield terminal in Omaha. The houses just beyond are in Carter Lake, Iowa (with Carter Lake visible to the right). The bluffs are in Omaha.

View of Eppley Airfield and Downtown Omaha

Eppley on June 16, 2011 during the 2011 Missouri River floods

The airport is northeast of downtown Omaha in east Omaha. Although the airport is in Nebraska on the west side of the Missouri River, it is surrounded on the east, west and south by the state of Iowa: the Missouri River formerly formed an oxbow west of the land that became Eppley Airfield. The river cut off the oxbow during an 1877 flood, leaving behind Carter Lake on a portion of its former course; the Supreme Court ruled in 1893 that though the land cut off by the river's changed route now lay west of the Missouri, it remained part of Iowa. This land eventually became the city of Carter Lake, Iowa.

[edit] History

The April 1957 OAG shows 42 scheduled airline departures a day: 23 United and 19 Braniff.

On August 6, 1966, Braniff Airways Flight 250 left Kansas City Downtown Airport headed for Eppley and crashed near Falls City, Nebraska, killing all 42 on board. The flight was waiting for weather to clear in Omaha before descending when violent turbulence compromised the structural integrity of the plane.

Several films have used Eppley for a few scenes including the 2002 feature film About Schmidt which included scenes filmed inside and outside the terminal building, and the 2009 feature film Up in the Air which made use of the south end of the terminal building during filming.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Eppley Airfield has two passenger concourses: Concourse A (gates A1-A10) and Concourse B (gates B11-B20).

Airlines	Destinations	Concourse
American Airlines	Dallas/Fort Worth	A
American Eagle	Chicago-O'Hare	A
Delta Air Lines	Atlanta, Minneapolis/St. Paul	A
Delta Connection operated by Chautauqua Airlines	Memphis	A
Delta Connection operated by Comair	Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky, New York-LaGuardia	A
Delta Connection operated by Compass Airlines	Atlanta, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Salt Lake City [begins March 6, 2012]	A
Delta Connection operated by ExpressJet Airlines	Atlanta, Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul	A
Delta Connection operated by Pinnacle Airlines	Atlanta, Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Salt Lake City	A
Delta Connection operated by Shuttle America	Detroit	A
Delta Connection operated by SkyWest Airlines	Minneapolis/St. Paul, Salt Lake City	A
Frontier Airlines	Denver	A
Frontier Airlines operated by Republic Airlines	Denver, Los Angeles, Washington-National Seasonal: Orlando, Tampa	A
Frontier Express operated by Chautauqua Airlines	Milwaukee	A
Southwest Airlines	Chicago-Midway, Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, St. Louis Seasonal: Orlando	B
United Airlines	Chicago-O'Hare, Denver, Houston-Intercontinental	B
United Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines	Chicago-O'Hare, Denver, Houston-Intercontinental, Newark	B
United Express operated by GoJet Airlines	Chicago-O'Hare, Denver	B
United Express operated by Shuttle America	Chicago-O'Hare, Denver	B
United Express operated by SkyWest Airlines	Chicago-O'Hare, Denver, Houston-Intercontinental	B
US Airways	Phoenix	B
US Airways Express operated by Mesa Airlines	Phoenix	B
US Airways Express operated by PSA Airlines	Charlotte [begins March 25, 2012]	B
US Airways Express operated by Republic Airlines	Washington-National [begins March 25, 2012]	B

[edit] Top destinations

**Busiest Domestic Routes from OMA (November 2010 - October 2011)**^[4]
Rank	City	Passengers	Carriers
1	Denver, CO	364,000	Frontier, Southwest, United
2	Chicago, IL (ORD)	205,000	American, United
3	Dallas/Fort Worth, TX	175,000	American
4	Chicago, IL (MDW)	169,000	Southwest
5	Phoenix, AZ	165,000	Southwest, US Airways
6	Minneapolis, MN	139,000	Delta
7	Atlanta, GA	119,000	Delta
8	Houston, TX	102,000	United
9	Las Vegas, NV	99,000	Southwest
10	St. Louis, MO	90,000	Southwest