2023 Oklahoma City Aviation Thread

[unfundedrick]

So comparing OKC's destinations now to pre-pandemic, we still need to get BACK the following:


OKC-BNA (Nashville): someone above confirmed it's coming back
OKC-DTW (Detroit)
OKC-PHL (Philadelphia)
OKC- SFO
OKC-IAD (Washington N Virginia)
OKC-BWI (Baltimore)
OKC-TPA: someone confirmed its return, but seasonal
OKC-MSY (New Orleans)
OKC-EWR (New York Newark): very surprised this is not back, come on United


Additional pairings that once existed:

OKC-DAL (Dallas)
OKC-CLE (Cleveland)
OKC-CVG (Cincinnati)
OKC-MCI (Kansas City)
OKC-OAK (Oakland)
OKC-SAN (San Diego)


for all of the wonderful additions we've gotten, SEA, LGA, MIA, MCO, DCA; I think the OKC Airport Trust should focus on restoring what we had and growing existing routes to mainline. For restored routes, start with United hubs then move on to those we lost long ago. I'd even recommend seed money for new and restored routes to get them started/restarted for a period, with more $$ than just ads in OKC but the catchment and route pair markets so they know the route exists.

While it's not missed, OKC also had nonstop between OKC and TUL at one time on Delta. I know because I did that. Great Plains did nonstop to ABQ and COS.
http://www.departedflights.com/ZO031103.html

[BG918]

While it's not missed, OKC also had nonstop between OKC and TUL at one time on Delta. I know because I did that. Great Plains did nonstop to ABQ and COS.
http://www.departedflights.com/ZO031103.html

I flew OKC-TUL on Delta twice. It was about a 30 min flight, similar distance as DEN-COS.

I’d love to see an airline restart that route as a tag like Great Plains Airlines did with TUL-OKC-COS and TUL-OKC-ABQ - both cities that would be great to have back for access to hiking/skiing .