EPPLEY AIRFIELD

'Eppley Airfield' is a commercial airport located 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 the state of Nebraska. In addition to the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, Eppley Airfield serves communities throughout 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.^[1]
The airport occupies 2,650 acres and handles about 397 flights a week. The airport has two concourses consisting of 21 gates.As of 2006, all regularly-scheduled flights from Eppley Airfield terminate within the United States. The airport handled more than four million passengers in 2006. In early 2006, the terminals were given official letter designations. The north terminal became Terminal A, the south one B. As of February 2007, Southwest Airlines is the largest carrier handling approximately 23 percent of passengers.[1]

Contents

Location

Airlines and destinations

Concourse A

Concourse B

References

Notes

External links

Location

The airport is located approximately four miles (6.4 km) northeast of downtown Omaha in East Omaha. Although the airport is in Nebraska and on the west side of the Missouri River, through a geographic oddity it is surrounded on the east, west and south by the state of Iowa.
People driving from downtown Omaha must go through Iowa to reach it and conversely people coming from the mainland of Iowa must cross Missouri River bridges into Nebraska to reach it. This is because the Missouri River formerly formed an oxbow on the west side of the airport. The river cut off the oxbow during an 1877 flood. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the land now west of the Missouri was part of Iowa. The community is called Carter Lake, Iowa. The main road connecting downtown Omaha is Abbott Drive. Abbott Drive is signed as Iowa Highway 165 just south of the Airport as it passes through Carter Lake for 0.5 miles. It is maintained by the Iowa Department of Transportation and has Iowa welcome signs on either side. Nebraska does not return the favor since Abbott Drive in Nebraska is a municipal road.
The lake itself is visible immediately across Abbott Drive to the west of the terminals.
Travelers coming from the north from North Omaha and the north side of Carter Lake in East Omaha can access the airport by staying in Nebraska the entire time.
Eppley Airfield is currently a focus city for Milwaukee-based Midwest Airlines.

Airlines and destinations

Concourse A

The airlines listed below use gates A1-A10 and baggage claims 1, 2, and 3:

★ American Airlines (Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago-O'Hare)

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★ American Eagle (Chicago-O'Hare)

★ Delta Air Lines

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★ Delta Connection operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines (Atlanta)

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★ Delta Connection operated by Comair (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky)

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★ Delta Connection operated by SkyWest (Salt Lake City)

★ Frontier Airlines (Denver)

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★ Frontier Airlines operated by Republic Airlines (Denver)

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★ Frontier JetExpress operated by Horizon Air (Denver) [ends November 30, 2007]

★ Midwest Airlines (Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Washington-Reagan)

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★ Midwest Connect operated by Skyway Airlines (Milwaukee)

★ Northwest Airlines (Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul)

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★ Northwest Airlink operated by Pinnacle Airlines (Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul)

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★ Northwest Airlink operated by Compass Airlines (Minneapolis/St. Paul)

Concourse B

The following airlines use gates B11-B20 and baggage claims 4, 5, and 6:

★ Continental Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental)

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★ Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental, Newark)

★ ExpressJet Airlines (Ontario, San Diego)

★ Mesa Airlines

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★ Mesa Airlines operated by Air Midwest (Brookings, Huron)

★ Southwest Airlines (Chicago-Midway, Las Vegas, Phoenix, St. Louis)

★ United Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, Denver)

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★ United Express operated by GoJet Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare)

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★ United Express operated by SkyWest (Chicago-O'Hare)

★ US Airways

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★ US Airways operated by America West Airlines (Phoenix)

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★ US Airways Express operated by Air Midwest (Grand Island, Kansas City, McCook)

References

★ Eppley Airfield (official site)

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Notes

1. Eppley Grant of Million Gives Omaha Jet Field - Lincoln, Nebraska, Evening Journal, December 31, 1959

External links

★ Transportation Security Administration

★ Federal Aviation Administration

★ U.S. Customs

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