2019 Oklahoma City Aviation Thread

[chrisok]

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I received notice of a schedule change yesterday. The early PHL flight is gone. Looks like the later flight is at 12:53 except for Saturday, where it moves to 15:13. In my case, the change worked great. Now I get the flights that were only available with a Business AAnytime Award for a MileSAAver rate.

[chrisok]

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[no1cub17]

https://www.seattletimes.com/busines...t-told-no-one/

[no1cub17]

Also just curious what everyone thinks about the recent Miami Air incident in Jacksonville? I know it's early and we shouldn't jump to conclusions, but I just find it interesting that no one is attacking the national origin of these pilots, or which country they trained in! Fascinating.

[catch22]

My opinion is that the Max grounding and Miami Air runway excursion are not related to OKC and should be in their own thread.

[catch22]

AA adds OKC-MIA effective Dec 18. E175 daily.

[jonny d]

AA adds OKC-MIA effective Dec 18. E175 daily.

That is a very good get! And more proof that AA views OKC very highly. If this does well, I would expect a flight to LaGuardia in 2020.

[HOT ROD]

very awesome and yes, appears LGA is all that's left for the AA portfolio.

[no1cub17]

Wow - daily year round to MIA is a legit add! Curious to see if PHL actually returns to 2x daily or will it just stay at 1x daily. Catch, any idea about the flight times for OKC-MIA? Didn't see them on a.net either.

[HOT ROD]

that got me thinking, what other major cities does OKC not have non-stop service to and who would be the airline that could do it. List is getting shorter and shorter!

Austin ?
Boston
Cincinnati
Cleveland - United
Indianapolis
Louisville
Memphis
Milwaukee
Nashville - American
New Orleans
New York - JFK
New York - LGA
Oakland - Alaska
Pittsburgh
Portland - Alaska
San Antonio
San Diego
Tampa

likely very wishful thinking, but I'd also like to see some level of service to smaller cities such as:

Albuquerque
Billings
Boise
Des Moines
El Paso
Irvine
Little Rock
Omaha
Spokane
Tulsa
Wichita

[HangryHippo]

At some point we’ve got to see either NYC or Boston added, no?

And I keep hoping (selfishly) for New Orleans!

[Richard at Remax]

I think best shot for MSY is Alliegiant

[damonsmuz]

Good news for AA and good news for Oklahoma aviation. I actually wasn't expecting to see any new routes come this year from AA since the MAX issue has been tying up other aircraft. This destination add goes to show that the aviation demand may be stronger than many realize. The NE adds can't be more than 2 years off in my opinion.

[no1cub17]

Surely NK will look at entering OKC at some point? They don't seem to care much for "flyover" states though. G4 gives such places much more love it seems like.

[damonsmuz]

Here's the initial schedule for the flights (as of right now) . Miami-bound flights are to depart at 5:22 a.m., arriving at 9:22 a.m.
Oklahoma City-bound flights will leave Miami at 9:42 p.m. and arrive at Will Rogers at 12:22 a.m.

[Dob Hooligan]

For those of us who just want to travel, can someone explain to me what MSY, NK and G4 mean?

[HOT ROD]

MSY is New Orleans

NK and G4 are airline codes (I'm not sure which however ).

[baralheia]

MSY is New Orleans

NK and G4 are airline codes (I'm not sure which however ).

NK = International Air Transport Association (IATA) airline designator code for Spirit Airlines
G4 = IATA airline designator code for Allegiant Air

[no1cub17]

Here's the initial schedule for the flights (as of right now) . Miami-bound flights are to depart at 5:22 a.m., arriving at 9:22 a.m.
Oklahoma City-bound flights will leave Miami at 9:42 p.m. and arrive at Will Rogers at 12:22 a.m.

Interesting- much more geared toward Caribbean connections rather than Europe or South America which makes sense as I don't think OKC has a significant South American diaspora.

[brianinok]

Here's the initial schedule for the flights (as of right now) . Miami-bound flights are to depart at 5:22 a.m., arriving at 9:22 a.m.
Oklahoma City-bound flights will leave Miami at 9:42 p.m. and arrive at Will Rogers at 12:22 a.m.

Off the top of my head, I think those are good times. I've looked at a couple Caribbean locations for trips and could not make it work on AA with a stop in Charlotte because either (1) the flight back to Charlotte got there before the last flight back to OKC left or (2) the first flight out of OKC to Charlotte got there after the flight to the Island left. Similar story on Delta through Atlanta. Plain and simple, without this MIA flight there are Caribbean islands OKC residents can't get to with one stop. Glad we have it now. I'm sure my family and I will be on it for multiple vacations through the years.

[Jeepnokc]

Off the top of my head, I think those are good times. I've looked at a couple Caribbean locations for trips and could not make it work on AA with a stop in Charlotte because either (1) the flight back to Charlotte got there before the last flight back to OKC left or (2) the first flight out of OKC to Charlotte got there after the flight to the Island left. Similar story on Delta through Atlanta. Plain and simple, without this MIA flight there are Caribbean islands OKC residents can't get to with one stop. Glad we have it now. I'm sure my family and I will be on it for multiple vacations through the years.

Also makes it easy for long weekends in Miami. Fly in Friday morning and back home Sunday night. Will be great option in winter to get away from the cold.

[shawnw]

Also makes it easy for long weekends in Miami. Fly in Friday morning and back home Sunday night. Will be great option in winter to get away from the cold.

this was exactly my thought

[BG918]

AA adds OKC-MIA effective Dec 18. E175 daily.

Great add for OKC! Hopefully TUL can get its MIA flight back after the Saturday only service ended last August. Hoping to see some AA love up the turnpike with LAX restarting and PHL and MIA adds.

[jonny d]

Great add for OKC! Hopefully TUL can get its MIA flight back after the Saturday only service ended last August. Hoping to see some AA love up the turnpike with LAX restarting and PHL and MIA adds.

Eh, selfishly, in order for OKC's airport to truly excel, we don't need Tulsa getting the exact same flights. This helps OKC pull from Tulsa, thus increasing numbers.

[BG918]

Eh, selfishly, in order for OKC's airport to truly excel, we don't need Tulsa getting the exact same flights. This helps OKC pull from Tulsa, thus increasing numbers.

TUL also has XNA in close proximity which has several nonstops to places not served from TUL like LGA, SFO and now MIA as well. I think the cities are spread out enough that a lot of the same routes can be flown with OKC likely having higher frequencies due to its larger size.