Eppley Airfield

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Eppley Airfield is the largest airport in the Dakotas, Iowa, and Nebraska and serves people throughout the 6-state super-region. With 397 flights each week, the airport had over 4,000,000 passengers in 2006.

Southwest Airlines accounts for 23% of all passengers, but OMA is also a focus city for Midwest Airlines. In addition to those two, the airport is also served by American, Delta, Frontier, Northwest, Continental, ExpressJet, Mesa, United, and US Airways.

Cities served with non-stop service from Omaha include:

Atlanta

Birmingham

Casper, WY

Chicago (Midway, O'Hare)

Cincinnati

Columbus, OH

Dallas

Denver

Ft. Lauderdale

Houston (Intercontinental, Hobby)

Kansas City

Jackson

Las Vegas

Los Angeles (LAX, Orange County)

Memphis

Milwaukee

Minneapolis

Nashville

New York (LaGuardia, JFK, Newark)

Orlando

Phoenix

Portland, OR

St. Louis

Seattle

Shreveport

Washington D.C.

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Per the CityWeekly, Eppley is on track to have 200,000 more passengers in 2007 than 2006.

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Today's World-Herald says that NWA will begin using new, larger 76-seat regional jets in 2 daily flights to Minneapolis starting next week.

This is great news for Omaha travelers, as it also means the addition of 40 new seats each day on NWA. Rumors also state that eventually all 5 daily flights will be upgraded.

Article here>>

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Eppley was the scene of Compass Airlines' inaugural flight from here to Minneapolis. It used the brand new 76-seat E-175.

Article here>>

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Eppley saw 28,000 more people in July of 07 than July of 06. That's a substantial increase! It will be interesting to see how Midwest turns out with their new owners, and how that affects our emplanements...