Tulsa Riverside Airport

[Zorba]

It's the busiest airport in number of operations, take-offs and landings.

It's time for a third Tulsa airport. There used to be a third one, north of downtown. The city sold that to the Osage Tribe and now it's the Osage Casino. If not a third airport, then extend the runway to the north instead of the south,

There is Harvey Young, Gundy's, and quite a few others around. They could develop GA at TUL much more too.

RVS is so busy because it has multiple, large flight schools, a great location, multiple FBOs, and a lot of hangar space. Building another airport would do little shrink RVS, although it may slow it's growth a little.

Extending the runway isn't about traffic, though, it's about getting larger aircraft, I say send them to TUL.

[Snowman]

There is Harvey Young, Gundy's, and quite a few others around. They could develop GA at TUL much more too.

RVS is so busy because it has multiple, large flight schools, a great location, multiple FBOs, and a lot of hangar space. Building another airport would do little shrink RVS, although it may slow it's growth a little.

Extending the runway isn't about traffic, though, it's about getting larger aircraft, I say send them to TUL.

It is almost weird how much less Tulsa appears to have prepped for future airport expansion compared to OKC. It seems like that kind of shows up in the field layouts too, as the designs picked by OKC look like to have been easier to modify and upgrade over time, while Tulsa layouts still work it looks like theirs have more quirks left from prior eras. Plus in addition to the city fields, OKC also has long acquired land for future Tinker expansion as well. Though I guess between the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center, Tinker, and having more passenger/cargo traffic there probably are more aviation jobs/revenue on the line in OKC; so probably got more attention from city hall.