I anticipate SFO will eventually go to the E175 and EWR will eventually go to the E170 (currently sees day of week upgauge to the 170)

Still kinda sad we just have the one token mainline flight on UA left. Glad to see the EJets moving into the schedule even more though.

Give me those E70/75s over just about anything else out of OKC right now (including mainline). Probably the most comofortable "newer" equipment out there.

The FAA has released its preliminary traffic numbers for 2013. Here be the link: http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/preliminary-cy13-commercial-service-enplanements.pdf

With 1,790,407 enplanements, that makes Will Rogers good for 64th busiest airport in the country. We also (again) have the title of largest Small Hub.

Tulsa International ranks 13 spots behind, at a few shades over 1.3 million enplanements. Lawton was a little further down at 55,526 enplanements.

Give me those E70/75s over just about anything else out of OKC right now (including mainline). Probably the most comofortable "newer" equipment out there.

Expect to see more of them.

Mesa signed a contract for heavy maintenance to be done at AAR OKC. It's my understanding that Mesa wants to have these on a regular schedule into OKC, to facilitate ease of maintenance scheduling. So I wouldn't be surprised to see IAD just go to an E75 regularly. But they may route through ORD.

Expect to see more of them.

Mesa signed a contract for heavy maintenance to be done at AAR OKC. It's my understanding that Mesa wants to have these on a regular schedule into OKC, to facilitate ease of maintenance scheduling. So I wouldn't be surprised to see IAD just go to an E75 regularly. But they may route through ORD.

That pretty much all but guarantees a constant flow of them into OKC as much as possible. Have seen this in other stations that don't primarily get a certain level of service seeing boosts because of it (Ft Wayne comes to mind - don't worry A.netters FWAERJ doesn't post here LOL).

Diversion palooza on going at OKC right now...

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07:17p

Was just going to post seeing tons of AA equipment on approach into OKC from downtown.

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Lol Williston ND with a 136% increase

More diversions incoming. Get your cameras.

Yesterday's diversions: The 1 from Abilene looks like it was a double-divert. Was scheduled as Mexico-DFW then diverted to Abilene...then ABI-DFW and was diverted to OKC.

Having lived in Abilene before..that flight is 30 mins tops.

That pretty much all but guarantees a constant flow of them into OKC as much as possible. Have seen this in other stations that don't primarily get a certain level of service seeing boosts because of it (Ft Wayne comes to mind - don't worry A.netters FWAERJ doesn't post here LOL).

HAHA - this cracks me up. Glad I'm not the only one who feels that way.

United will be moving to Gate 11 Monday by noon, and American will receive control of Gate 8 at noon.

Airport approved the lease amendment Thursday deleting Gate 8 and adding Gate 11.

^Just in time for the new Charlotte nonstops beginning next week.

Yes that's the reason for the move.

Gate podiums and computers aren't even ready to be installed by either airline. But ramp parking space is more important, as gate functions can be run out of an adjacent gate for the time being.

Nonstops to Charlotte on US/AA begin tomorrow July 2. The two daily nonstops to CLT from TUL also begin tomorrow. Any special celebrations planned for the first ever service from Oklahoma to North Carolina? They should set BBQ stands in each airport with the respective 'ques from each state; bologna with thick sauce for OK and pulled pork with mustard sauce for NC. :)

Few shots from last night. Gate 11 first United arrival. 4 United airplanes lines up. (Actually 5 because United also needed Gate 1 last night)

http://i.gyazo.com/e6679b7d8a56a9e25019312ba599911d.png

http://i.gyazo.com/c78a7ef8e50ff259cc4a0c6770f70f27.png

Also, looked like American was rebranding and slightly expanding their ticket counter overnight. (Think they added two work stations).

Speaking of branding..what are the odds that Frontier could spruce up their ticket counter some besides the lone sign on the wall?

Slim to none.

Nonstops to Charlotte on US/AA begin tomorrow July 2. The two daily nonstops to CLT from TUL also begin tomorrow. Any special celebrations planned for the first ever service from Oklahoma to North Carolina? They should set BBQ stands in each airport with the respective 'ques from each state; bologna with thick sauce for OK and pulled pork with mustard sauce for NC. :)

I'll be going to a special C of C event on July 15th introducing this new service. It probably won't provide any new information but , if it does, I'll share.

I see an old tulip in there.



Few shots from last night. Gate 11 first United arrival. 4 United airplanes lines up. (Actually 5 because United also needed Gate 1 last night)

http://i.gyazo.com/e6679b7d8a56a9e25019312ba599911d.png

Also, looked like American was rebranding and slightly expanding their ticket counter overnight. (Think they added two work stations).

News9


OKLAHOMA CITY - American Airlines and Oklahoma City airport officials are planning to celebrate the inaugural flight of the airline's first nonstop flight to Charlotte, North Carolina.
A ribbon cutting for the first flight will be held Wednesday at the Will Rogers World Airport. The flight will be operated by US Airways Express.

Airline officials say adding direct service to Charlotte will provide more access to the U.S., Europe and Latin America. American and US Airways offer 645 daily flights to cities in more than 20 countries.

The first flight will depart at 1:40 p.m.
- Oklahoma City Airport Officials Tout Charlotte Flight - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports | (http://www.news9.com/story/25924857/oklahoma-city-airport-officials-tout-charlotte-flight)

US Airways return to OKC...

Inbound: Mesa (YV) #2706 ? FlightAware (http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ASH2706)

Outbound: Mesa (YV) #2710 ? FlightAware (http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ASH2710)

Any pics of the new Charlotte flight? I saw her flying over my home yesterday but couldnt get a good pic of it

Here's a few I took last night at work of the overnighter from Charlotte. Sorry cell phones don't take good pics in the dark.

http://i.gyazo.com/de0aa0ff1de0936104b15a8a7acb0ea0.png

http://i.gyazo.com/fd542793ef0a8309ee41c2ed7191c0fe.png

And here's the arrival from Wednesday. Also, as a shameless plug, I'm the self-appointed spotter for our humble airport. :D If you know of anything interesting going on, I'd appreciate any little birdies with tidbits of info! If curious you are, see some of my shots on the aforementioned airliners.net: Tigerguy's photos (http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?usersearch=128359&distinct_entry=true&page=1&page_limit=15&sid=54dfd4c62ed341b0df8f50ea64d21f37&sort_order=photo_id+desc&thumbnails=)

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And here's the arrival from Wednesday. Also, as a shameless plug, I'm the self-appointed spotter for our humble airport. :D If you know of anything interesting going on, I'd appreciate any little birdies with tidbits of info! If curious you are, see some of my shots on the aforementioned airliners.net: Tigerguy's photos (http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?usersearch=128359&distinct_entry=true&page=1&page_limit=15&sid=54dfd4c62ed341b0df8f50ea64d21f37&sort_order=photo_id+desc&thumbnails=)



Looks good! Thanks for sharing.

So in lump sum, air travel here in OKC doing pretty good? It appears to be seeing new flights be landed here.

No, we are finally catching up to par. Just like other areas of interest in the city, are finally getting up to par.

Unless you are flying out between 6 and 7 am, nonstop flights out of OKC are pretty much limited to Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Denver, and Chicago.

A healthy air travel market can support multiple daily nonstop flights to more than just the megahubs.

No, we are finally catching up to par. Just like other areas of interest in the city, are finally getting up to par.

Unless you are flying out between 6 and 7 am, nonstop flights out of OKC are pretty much limited to Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Denver, and Chicago.

A healthy air travel market can support multiple daily nonstop flights to more than just the megahubs.gotcha. Well, at least it is somewhat improving.

Between 6 and 7 a.m. = mostly business travellers. I'm sure that's also when the terminal appears the busiest in the day when about 10 or 11 flights leave in one hour?

Between 6 and 7 a.m. = mostly business travellers. I'm sure that's also when the terminal appears the busiest in the day when about 10 or 11 flights leave in one hour?

Between 530 and 7 there's probably close to 20 departures.

Nice! Wish there was another "peak" like that at some other point during the day but it's flat as far as hourly counts go. At least as far as departures are concerned. I've seen the plethora of late-night arrivals that last well into the wee hours of the morning on FlightAware.

My mistake, it used to be a lot more condensed. A lot of the airlines (especially United) have spread out the morning departures and/or cut back on originators (like UA LAX going to the afternoon).

United used to have all 8 originators leave between 540 and 7am. Now United has 7 overnighters and they leave between 540 and 830ish. I looked at flightaware this morning, looks to be about 21 or so departures between 540 and 8am. Which is still pretty healthy.

http://www.flyokc.com/statistics/June%2021014%20Enplanement.pdf

June up 4%

Glad to see Frontier doing it's thing here. Were they under the ULCC brand last June or did that come later?

Frontier's new ULCC pricing structure went into effect this year (this Spring). But the transition to a ULCC has been in the works for a while now.

I've noticed at least 2 new billboards of AA promoting new CLT service on I-35.. and the billboards are not even close to the airport. Can't recall a time there was a billboard promoting new service outside of a 1 mile radius of Will Rogers... cool

^Cool. Speaking of advertising I also saw two ads (one each) in yesterday's Daily Oklahoman and Norman Transcript for the new CLT nonstops. Hopefully this continues, nice to see the ads.

I've also heard a few radio ads here and there.

They've always advertised on OK-152 heading to the airport, but I was stunned to see the AA billboard on 235 today. Pretty cool stuff.

Started a trip with Delta on Saturday and returned yesterday. Noticed that we used 17R/35L both times. Checked the NOTAM and saw that 17L/35R is closed, as I suspected may have been the case. Anybody know why?

Not sure. But it's been fun at work watching the planes stack up around 10pm. The other night I saw 4 landing lights lined up in the distance. Felt like a real airport for once.

Yeah, I love it when that kind of activity happens. I remember a departing flight some time ago when a runway was closed; we were actually in a takeoff queue!

Yeah, I love it when that kind of activity happens. I remember a departing flight some time ago when a runway was closed; we were actually in a takeoff queue!

I kinda miss those days, especially at the smaller airports. Several years ago I was flying out of a small airport in Ohio, only a couple airlines flew there. We were something like 7th in line for take off because they had an air cargo hub there and it was during the morning rush. :)

Though I never really have such fond memories of flying out of ATL and hearing "we're number 17 for take off"...those aren't as fun. LOL

I kinda miss those days, especially at the smaller airports. Several years ago I was flying out of a small airport in Ohio, only a couple airlines flew there. We were something like 7th in line for take off because they had an air cargo hub there and it was during the morning rush. :)

Though I never really have such fond memories of flying out of ATL and hearing "we're number 17 for take off"...those aren't as fun. LOL

Wilmington? I know Airborne Express (now ABX Air) had a hub there before DHL took it out.

I've flown to/from ATL several times, and it's never been more than 7 or 8 back in the line for me so I guess I've been lucky. Really though, bad weather is most often what throws ATL out of whack (especially thunderstorms); ATC there is amazingly efficient for the volume of traffic handled.

Now JFK - on most nights it's a good night if the queue doesn't exceed 30 planes. Especially in the summer months when a lot of extra flights are added by airlines. But you know it's bad when they start using a runway (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KWKSku2wDo) to hold departures.

Don't know if this was announced here yet,

For the month of November 2014, UNITED Embraer E175 operates Houston – Oklahoma City route (http://www.routesonline.com/news/29/breaking-news/242951/united-nov-2014-planned-embraer-e175-operations-as-of-31jul14/). Hopefully Chicago - Oklahoma City is forthcoming for the type, then IAD, SFO, EWR, and LAX.

Just booked a flight to LAS in October for me and my wife for $209 R/T on AA. Been awhile since I've been able to secure anything that cheap.

HOT ROD,

The 170 will operate OKC-IAH, DEN, ORD in Sept. and EWR on some days.

As far as the passengers are concerned, the 170 and 175 are very similar.

This is the large Mesa operation I have been talking about, with AAR being the maintenance provider on the Mesa 175's.

Surprised they didn't try and route ORD or IAD, to flow their east coast operation through here.

Nov IAH schedule:

5 E175
1 A319
3 E145
1 CRJ7

Edit: Some Mesa 175's will route through here out of IAH on revenue flights for the Aug-Sep schedule. Just FYI.

Also, of note, and I can only find it on Dec 1, IAH will have 11 daily flights, with an extra E175. Not sure the importance of that date, but it's in the schedule only for that date. It might be a hint of what they want to do in Dec, as the nov schedule ends on Dec 2.

Appears OKC will lose Newark service on United after January. United is also pulling the plug on service from Tulsa to both Newark and Washington Dulles. Hopefully these are just going seasonal as things show back up in March - if the schedule is even set that far out yet.

Ouch! There goes my direct flight to see one of my clients in Manhattan.

That sucks about EWR service. Will be a real kick in the pants for my work travel.

Consolidation for runway construction. Tulsa lost theirs even earlier. Should come back.

runway construction on which end?

Ewr.

Appears OKC will lose Newark service on United after January. United is also pulling the plug on service from Tulsa to both Newark and Washington Dulles. Hopefully these are just going seasonal as things show back up in March - if the schedule is even set that far out yet.

The reservation system I use shows that United is terminating the nonstop flights on January 6th and starting again on March 5th.

Saw some diverts come in tonight intended to go to DFW. I see there was a storm near DFW.. but it was only in the approach area for a few mins. Is it just me or is DFW rather sensitive to tstorms?