Good news, I looked up prices again and for 08/23 (first day) RT it looks like fares are at $210.
Just two weeks away from flights to and from Stillwater and Dallas!
It will help OSU sports in recruiting players from north Texas. Distance from Stillwater airport to Pickings stadium: 2 1/2 mi. Distance from OKC airport to Gaylord Stadium: 22 mi.
http://newsok.com/article/5513288
Curious how these fares play out. Only an hour or so from downtown OKC to SWO, and free parking. If the savings get up to $200/pp or so, my wife and I may be making the trek up there.
I looked at a random date next February going to several destinations. The roundtrip fare to DFW was $191.70 from SWO and $278.20 from OKC. The fare to LAX was $395.70 from SWO and $328.20 from OKC on nonstop flights. The fare to LGA was $365.70 from SWO and $417.20 from OKC. The fare to DCA was $382.20 from SWO and $373.20 from OKC. The bottom line is that you would just have to research your needed dates closely to see if there was a significant savings leaving from SWO.
If I was in the north metro, Edmond/Guthrie area, I would defiantly consider flying out of SWO.
Pros:
easy drive
easy check-in
FREE Parking (as of now)
quick security checkpoints (Not that OKC is slow, longest I've had wait in line in OKC is probably about 8-10 minutes)
quick loading & unloading of the ERJ-145
Cons
Drive may be a little longer (and boring) compared to going down to OKC
Only a couple of departure/arrival times, limits flexibility on trips.
So does this bring us to 4 airports with commercial airline service?
Lawton
Oklahoma City
Stillwater
Tulsa
Any others? Doesn't some small town in the panhandle have a commercial service on Great Lakes to Denver?
Today is the big day for Stillwater!
Celebration from 12-2 p.m. at the Stillwater Regional Airport.
Learn more here: http://stillwater.org/city_of_stillw...al_airport.php
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ENY3345
First flight.
On Aug. 23, 2016, Stillwater Regional Airport's open house at the terminal for the first arriving and departing American Eagle flights drew a large crowd. Some pictures from that historical event.
Arriving passengers leaving plane.
Pistol Pete greets arriving passengers.
Plane taxiing to runway to depart
American Eagle leaves Stillwater Regional Airport for Dallas
Ticket counter and arrivals/departures area
More photos here: http://www.ocolly.com/gallery/collec...774528189.html
Although I m die hard Sooner, I am a proud Oklahoman first. Congratulations Stillwater and OSU. Happy to see Stillwater growing.
Local articles on the first American Eagle flights:
http://www.ocolly.com/news/article_f...0eabc21f8.html
http://www.ocolly.com/news/article_b...ed8763603.html
http://www.stwnewspress.com/news/loc...7c166add4.html
This morning on KOSU, Burns Hargis mentioned being on the flight from DFW to SWO and said he thought there were 48 people. Both pilots were OSU grads.
Loads look somewhat light overall the next few days. A few flights which look fuller than others, but at least 7 seats for sale on all of them. Having said that, AA will definitely need to be patient with this route. There are a large number of international students at OSU so I'm sure AA will easily fill up the planes eventually. Pretty impressive that it's now possible to fly (for example) BOM-DOH-DFW on QR and connect to SWO on AA.
I believe osu and Stillwater are kicking in some pretty big subsidies. AA probably doesn't need to sell a bunch of seats to turn a profit.
The biggest long term challenge for this will be when e145's are retired. Airlines are dumping 50 seat RJ's very rapidly in favor of larger equip
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