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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 ...
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. 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 ...
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.
Recent airline service was subsidized by the Essential Air Service program until May 2004, [3] [4] when it 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). [5]
Omaha: Eppley Airfield: United States : Las Vegas: Harry Reid International Airport: Base [57] Reno: Reno–Tahoe International Airport: Resumes March 7, 2025 [58]
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
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.
She is maintained as a World War II museum and memorial. The Omaha Correctional Center, or OCC, is a medium/minimum security facility located on a 37-acre (150,000 m 2) site in East Omaha, just south of Eppley Airfield. [28] Eppley Airfield serves as Omaha's primary airport, providing service throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico.