2018 Oklahoma City Aviation Thread

[amocore]

saw that Alaska Airlines is mainline now. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/ASA9443

This is good news ! This flight has been fully booked everyday almost ! They needed to put more capacity.

[OUman]

Hate to break it to you but this is likely a repositioning flight headed back to SEA after AAR maintenance - note the flight number is in the 9000s.

[HOT ROD]

Just a heads-up for any aviation enthusiasts/people working at the airport, Atlas Air has a 747-400F coming in from ANC (Anchorage International Airport) today, if it's on schedule then it will be coming in at 12:12p.m. Should be pretty cool to watch.

Landing scheduled for 3:15pm, got an hour to get out there for pics.

GTI8552

B744

Anchorage Intl (ANC)

03:55a AKST

03:15p CST

[HOT ROD]

Hate to break it to you but this is likely a repositioning flight headed back to SEA after AAR maintenance - note the flight number is in the 9000s.

it's a start though, and is mainline nonetheless.

[damonsmuz]

Alaska sends lots of mainline flights to OKC for maintenance. But any flight that is in the 9000s is not a revenue flight. It's merely here for work and then heads back to SEA. Maybe one day we'll have mainline but unfortunately not yet

[HOT ROD]

oh.

well, still - happy to have the flights/planes and the work in OKC. .

[catch22]

Yep. Definitely maintenance. They have been sending their planes here for 15-20 years or more.

[stjohn]

Mainline = what? The 737 instead of the E175?

[damonsmuz]

Yes. Mainline would be the 737s or Airbus's. Regionals are the E175's. It would be like flying United when you're in a A320 or 737 but when you fly the CRJ200's,etc you're flying on a regional airline, like Skywest or Mesa,etc.

[stjohn]

Got it. Is anyone other than WN flying 737s from OKC?

[Celebrator]

Got it. Is anyone other than WN flying 737s from OKC?

AA, DL, and Casino Express

[OUman]

...Casino Express

Casino Express is now Xtra Airways, and is a very rare visitor here (only does charter flights). If I'm not mistaken I think we get more visits from Miami Air International (which just flew in a whole crew of OG&E workers from San Juan, Puerto Rico a few days ago).

As for passenger airlines that fly mainliners to/from OKC:

- American | Currently MD 82s/83s and a 319 (MDs will be retired this year)
- Delta | Currently flies B717-200s and B737-700s (though MD-88s have been scheduled for the summer months in the past)
- Southwest
- United | mix of 737s and 320-family aircraft (319 or 320)

Currently Fedex and UPS have Airbus 300-600Fs scheduled to/from OKC.

[catch22]

Don't forget Frontier and Allegiant. While they don't have regionals they are still considered mainline sized aircraft.

[OUman]

^Ahh yes, good call. Yep, both fly mainline (mix of 320-family and MD-80).

[Celebrator]

DL has thrown in 735s too

[HOT ROD]

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...-spurt-445022/

From 7 June, the airline will connect Philadelphia to Oklahoma City with twice daily non-stop OKC-PHI starting June 7.

Woo-Hoo! All that's left hub-wise is OKC-LGA, OKC-MIA and OKC-DCA (focus city).

[jonny d]

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...-spurt-445022/

From 7 June, the airline will connect Philadelphia to Oklahoma City with twice daily non-stop OKC-PHI starting June 7.

Woo-Hoo! All that's left hub-wise is OKC-LGA, OKC-MIA and OKC-DCA (focus city).

Is LaGuardia basically a no-go, due to mileage restrictions? I believe the only exceptions for that are hubs, right?

[catch22]

Is LaGuardia basically a no-go, due to mileage restrictions? I believe the only exceptions for that are hubs, right?

OKC is within both the LGA and DCA perimeters.

[sbs]

DL has thrown in 735s too

Delta doesn't have any 735s.

[Celebrator]

Delta doesn't have any 735s.

Just went with what I found on Flight Aware. Must be a mistake.

DAL1140 B735 Hartsfield-Jackson Intl (KATL) Fri 05:09PM CST Fri 07:37PM EST Fri 07:37PM EST
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...209Z/KOKC/KATL

[sbs]

Just went with what I found on Flight Aware. Must be a mistake.

DAL1140 B735 Hartsfield-Jackson Intl (KATL) Fri 05:09PM CST Fri 07:37PM EST Fri 07:37PM EST
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...209Z/KOKC/KATL

FlightAware is bad about that. It reports the wrong a/c type occasionally. It was actually a 739 on Friday surprisingly. Probably a mx swap.

[OUman]

FlightAware is good but recently I've been noticing some weird stuff going on with some flights. Might be a software issue.

[catch22]

FlightAware uses a hybrid of airline schedule data and FAA flight plans. For example, an airline might punish for sale a flight operated by a 73V which is an internal United code. FlightAware gets confused (rightfully) so it makes a best guess as to what equipment is being used. I don't know why they don't just use the FAA flight plan info at all times...

[OUman]

^It started using ADS-B data very recently for flights that transmit ADS-B data. I hear the FAA has switched to ADS-B pretty much everywhere now and it will be a requirement by 2020.

[catch22]

^It started using ADS-B data very recently for flights that transmit ADS-B data. I hear the FAA has switched to ADS-B pretty much everywhere now and it will be a requirement by 2020.

For position updates, but the flight plan is still on file with the FAA and should always have the correct a/c code.