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Eppley Airfield (IATA: OMA, ICAO: KOMA, FAA LID: OMA), also known as Omaha Airport, is an airport in the midwestern United States, located three miles (5 km) northeast of downtown Omaha, Nebraska. On the west bank of the Missouri River in Douglas County , it is the largest airport in Nebraska, with more arrivals and departures than all other ...
Omaha: OMA: OMA KOMA Eppley Airfield: P-M 2,454,878 Scottsbluff: BFF: BFF KBFF Western Nebraska Regional Airport (William B. Heilig Field) P-N 14,295 Commercial service – nonprimary airports: Alliance: AIA: AIA KAIA Alliance Municipal Airport: CS 2,921 Chadron: CDR: CDR KCDR Chadron Municipal Airport: CS 5,218 Reliever airports: Omaha MLE ...
The Omaha Airport Authority is the organization charged with management of Omaha Eppley Airfield and Millard Airport in Omaha, Nebraska. It is overseen by a five-person Board of Directors , members of which are appointed by the Mayor of Omaha .
Today Eppley Airfield sits on 2,650 acres (10.7 km 2) and handles approximately 400 flights a week. There are two concourses that hold 20 gates. The airport handled more than 4.4 million passengers in 2007, and as of September 2008, Southwest Airlines is the largest carrier handling approximately 24 percent of passengers.
Many of those at Eppley Airfield faced hours in long lines to get in and clogged parking lots and busy crowds to get out. Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck on freezing cold Omaha airfield after rally
First airline flights were Mid-West Airlines Cessna 190s in 1950–51. Frontier DC-3s arrived in 1959, and its last Convair 580 left in 1979. Air Midwest (U.S. Airways Express) began service on October 29, 2006, with two daily flights to Grand Island and on to Omaha Eppley Airfield and Kansas City International Airport. [3] [4]
Millard Airport (IATA: MIQ, ICAO: KMLE, FAA LID: MLE) is a public airport seven miles (11 km) southwest of the central business district of Omaha, a city in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States. It is owned and operated by the Omaha Airport Authority , [ 1 ] who also owns the main airport of Omaha, Eppley Airfield .
Airline service was subsidized by the Essential Air Service program until May 2004, [5] [6] when subsidies ended due to federal law not allowing a subsidy over $200 per passenger for communities within 210 miles of the nearest large or medium hub airport (Eppley Airfield, a medium hub serving Omaha, Nebraska). [7]