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The airport is named for Eugene C. Eppley, founder of the Eppley Hotel chain, from whose estate $1 million was used to ready the then-Omaha Municipal Airport for jet aircraft in 1959–60. [7] This was matched by the federal government and improvements were made to handle jets at the airport, which was renamed Eppley Airfield in his honor in ...
Kearney Regional Airport (was Kearney Municipal) P-N 4,568 Lincoln: LNK: LNK KLNK Lincoln Airport (was Lincoln Municipal) P-N 150,214 North Platte: LBF: LBF KLBF North Platte Regional Airport (Lee Bird Field) P-N 13,798 Omaha: OMA: OMA KOMA Eppley Airfield: P-M 2,454,878 Scottsbluff: BFF: BFF KBFF Western Nebraska Regional Airport (William B ...
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
The carrier commenced service on October 29, 2006 with two daily flights to Omaha Eppley Airfield and one daily flight to Kansas City International Airport. Air Midwest ended their service in May 2008, and local commuter air carrier Island Air then announced plans to take over but did not begin this new replacement service.
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.
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. [1]
Eugene C. Eppley (April 8, 1884 – October 14, 1958) also known as Gene, was a hotel magnate in Omaha, Nebraska. [1] Eppley is credited with single-handedly building one of the most successful hotel empires, [ 2 ] by the 1950s the largest privately owned hotel chain in the United States .
Until March 2011 it was known as Karl Stefan Memorial Airport. [2] The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation facility. Federal Aviation Administration records say Norfolk had 1,709 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2001, 1,139 enplanments in 2002, [ 3 ] 1,254 in ...