2024 Oklahoma City Aviation Thread

[bison34]

So I gotta ask. Did you check fares from Tulsa, Stillwater, or Dallas?

This is a nonstop, direct flight from OKC to Baton Rouge, only offered for the OU-LSU game Thanksgiving weekend. It is supposed to be some cool offer airlines are offering college football fans, but the prices make it almost criminal.

[PoliSciGuy]

It's a one-off charter flight over Thanksgiving weekend. It's high but understandable given all those qualifiers. On an ERJ/CRJ they only need 75 or so folks willing to pay that price. I think there are enough OU fans that will dish that out to save an 18 hour round trip drive.

[unfundedrick]

I'm gonna disagree with you there. This has nothing to do with Thanksgiving and all about giving fans an easy way, although stupid expensive, to get to and from these hard to reach cities that might have no reason to be connected if it weren't for a football game.

Disagree all you want but I deal with airline ticket prices all day every day and know what I'm talking about.

[Richard at Remax]

Disagree all you want but I deal with airline ticket prices all day every day and know what I'm talking about.

I stand by my statement. Offering easy travel in exchange for a really expensive ticket.

$4161 RT for two if you are coming from Knoxville (Tenn) on Delta in Sept


$2000+ for two coming from Columbia (USC) to OKC on Delta in Oct


$1900 RT for two on if you are coming from Birmingham (Bama) on Delta In Nov


$1900 for two from OKC to Baton Rouge (LSU) on Delta in Nov

[Richard at Remax]

Let's look at a few on United. It looks like they only added OKC to Baton Rouge with a direct.

The Tennessee game. Cheapest is almost $2300/ticket


Almost $2k/person for direct to LSU

[Richard at Remax]

Now american which looks like they are only doing Tenn, Bama, and LSU for directs

Tenn to OKC $1300/person


Huntsville to OKC $757/person


Birmingham to OKC $937/person

[Celebrator]

^ These are actually nonstops, not directs.

[HOT ROD]

well technically, nonstops are directs. but you can also have a direct that has a stop inbetween, just doesn't change planes.

direct means doesn't change planes (could be nonstop, or one or more stops).

[Richard at Remax]

^ These are actually nonstops, not directs.

It was after midnight, give me some slack lol

[unfundedrick]

I stand by my statement. Offering easy travel in exchange for a really expensive ticket.

$4161 RT for two if you are coming from Knoxville (Tenn) on Delta in Sept


$2000+ for two coming from Columbia (USC) to OKC on Delta in Oct


$1900 RT for two on if you are coming from Birmingham (Bama) on Delta In Nov


$1900 for two from OKC to Baton Rouge (LSU) on Delta in Nov

I'm not saying that airlines don't try to take advantage of sports fans. Prices have been like that for years for flights to bowl games. My point was that the price for Thanksgiving weekend can easily be justified because other airline prices with connections are just as high or higher and that is due to thanksgiving.

[Celebrator]

It was after midnight, give me some slack lol

Sorry just the personal pet peeve of an avgeek, lol

[Jersey Boss]

No reason to pay those fares unless you like burning money.

[Richard at Remax]

Looks like starting Sept 3 - May 4, the MIA route on AA goes to Saturday only. Then it goes back to daily in May.

[BG918]

I noticed United recently resumed nonstop flights from Omaha to SFO. Made me wonder if this route would get resumed from OKC. I also know SFO and SEA are the two highest priority routes that TUL is trying to get served.

Also saw XNA resumed nonstops to DTW and SLC, and American just announced flights to PHL.

[bison34]

I wonder if OKC will ever get SFO or DTW back. Those would be amazing to get back. And PHL.

[brianinok]

Looks like starting Sept 3 - May 4, the MIA route on AA goes to Saturday only. Then it goes back to daily in May.

Which is ridiculous. There have been times this route has been upgraded to A319 and even A321 during holiday and busy periods over the past year because of demand. No reason it should be less than daily.

[no1cub17]

No reason to pay those fares unless you like burning money.

They're likely aimed at big money donors who wipe their butts with $1000 bills. They aren't geared toward the "normal fan" like you and me. I'm sure AA will have no trouble filling those flights. If I had money to burn like that, I'd definitely highly consider splurging for the convenience.

[gopokes88]

Which is ridiculous. There have been times this route has been upgraded to A319 and even A321 during holiday and busy periods over the past year because of demand. No reason it should be less than daily.

Weird cause winter is high season for Miami. Maybe it's too make room for more profitable routes, only so many slots.

[shai2022]

Losing the daily Miami flight is so disappointing. Was just looking last week and it was daily starting back up in December after a two month hiatus (on mainline). No more TPA on SW either and ORL is no longer daily. And still no DTW, PHL, SFO, or IAD as peer cities are gaining back service is a tough look. Feels like we haven't added a new route in a year plus.

[BG918]

Losing the daily Miami flight is so disappointing. Was just looking last week and it was daily starting back up in December after a two month hiatus (on mainline). No more TPA on SW either and ORL is no longer daily. And still no DTW, PHL, SFO, or IAD as peer cities are gaining back service is a tough look. Feels like we haven't added a new route in a year plus.

And losing Allegiant entirely

[bison34]

Losing the daily Miami flight is so disappointing. Was just looking last week and it was daily starting back up in December after a two month hiatus (on mainline). No more TPA on SW either and ORL is no longer daily. And still no DTW, PHL, SFO, or IAD as peer cities are gaining back service is a tough look. Feels like we haven't added a new route in a year plus.

We haven't. Just been losing them. Or having them paused.

I think it means OKC's not having as many leisure travelers as people thought.

[unfundedrick]

We haven't. Just been losing them. Or having them paused.

I think it means OKC's not having as many leisure travelers as people thought.

It doesn't mean that at all. I guarantee you that the airlines had and still have a solid knowledge of what the market is. They track the origin and destination of every person who flies. They are always changing schedules and with limited capacity in order to maximize their profits.

[bison34]

It doesn't mean that at all. I guarantee you that the airlines had and still have a solid knowledge of what the market is. They track the origin and destination of every person who flies. They are always changing schedules and with limited capacity in order to maximize their profits.

Well then apparently OKC's seen as a highly expendable market. More so than other cities of their size, it seems, like Louisville or Omaha.

[Snowman]

Well then apparently OKC's seen as a highly expendable market. More so than other cities of their size, it seems, like Louisville or Omaha.

Omaha is known for having unusually high amount of business travel. Louisville probably benefits getting east coast and upper midwest connections vs OKC due to being around half the distance between city pairs, saving both fuel and time the planes are needed for the trips.

[Laramie]

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