Really cool area!damonhynes wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 8:46 pmGulf Shores is in a very pretty part of Alabama. GUF is already the third-busiest airport in the state. Foley and Daphne are nice-sized towns. Buc-ee's, Wawa and Publix--what more do you need? :-)SkyWarrior55 wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 7:31 pm
Allegiant adds GUF from OMA. Looks like start date is May 21st.
Too bad that G4's seats are cinderblocks.
Have there been any new Amazon hubs or the like built recently?nativeomahan wrote: Thu Nov 20, 2025 3:50 pm I wonder why cargo operations are up so sharply year over year? Almost 25%!
The DC by 370 and HWY 50 came online in like September or something like that.Garrett wrote: Thu Nov 20, 2025 7:49 pmHave there been any new Amazon hubs or the like built recently?nativeomahan wrote: Thu Nov 20, 2025 3:50 pm I wonder why cargo operations are up so sharply year over year? Almost 25%!
I don't follow cargo anywhere near as closely as I do commercial passenger #'s but I'm doubting it is amazon related, especially based on where my orders are coming from. Amazon flew planes from Fort Worth to Omaha for about a year between 2022 to 2023. I'm guessing most of the stuff (and again would check out from my orders) is coming ground to Omaha.Garrett wrote: Thu Nov 20, 2025 7:49 pmHave there been any new Amazon hubs or the like built recently?nativeomahan wrote: Thu Nov 20, 2025 3:50 pm I wonder why cargo operations are up so sharply year over year? Almost 25%!
Allegiant keeps expanding here in Des Moines which accounts for much of the gains over here! New Burbank and Philly nonstop service starts in the spring too. My cousin's family of 6 just flew back to Des Moines from Florida on Allegiant, they live in Lincoln. (times and prices are better I was told vs Omaha only 2x a week to Tampa on Allegiant.). Another friend and his wife from Omaha flew to Orange County from Des Moines this weekend, he said prices were less than half of what it was to fly from Omaha. The bleed from western Iowa and Nebraska is getting significant! Next time I go to DSM airport, I'm going to take some time to study the license plates and report back!
Lots of Allegiant adds here in Des Moines all the time. Billboards, radio, some TV etc. I'm surprised they just started advertising from Omaha. Could have something to do with Breeze or some other stratagy, would love to have ears inside some of these companies. I'd surprised the ad is to Orlando and not to their new destination of Gulf Shores so maybe that is a Breeze target.Mr.Nuke wrote: Tue Nov 25, 2025 6:34 pm I don't pay attention to commercials all that often, but Allegiant ran an ad on KETV during the 6 p.m. news specifically highlighting fares to Orlando/Sanford. Probably trying to head of Breeze at LNK, but this is the first time in a long time that I can recall an airline running a targeted ad in Omaha.
DSM lost the postal contract & now that flies from OMA. Here's the story:Mr.Nuke wrote: Fri Nov 21, 2025 6:06 pmI don't follow cargo anywhere near as closely as I do commercial passenger #'s but I'm doubting it is amazon related, especially based on where my orders are coming from. Amazon flew planes from Fort Worth to Omaha for about a year between 2022 to 2023. I'm guessing most of the stuff (and again would check out from my orders) is coming ground to Omaha.Garrett wrote: Thu Nov 20, 2025 7:49 pmHave there been any new Amazon hubs or the like built recently?nativeomahan wrote: Thu Nov 20, 2025 3:50 pm I wonder why cargo operations are up so sharply year over year? Almost 25%!
Thank you, that was an interesting article. Sounds like we can expect some more trucks headed eastbound on I-80.Bob from Omaha wrote: Thu Nov 27, 2025 11:22 am DSM lost the postal contract & now that flies from OMA. Here's the story:
DSM Postal Contract
Were these one-offs? I never saw any media around them.Bob from Omaha wrote: Sun Nov 30, 2025 9:09 pm OMA had some new destinations today:
Southwest 8804 Albany Departed 6:34 PM B16
Delta 4184 Greensboro NOW 7:30 PM 5:30 PM A5
American 9926 Traverse City NOW 7:31 PM 5:00 PM A8
Oh duh.Bob from Omaha wrote: Sun Nov 30, 2025 9:55 pm I'm assuming it was weather related diversions. Some airports were closed for a time.
Like Bob said it is weather related. Chicago airports were particularly bad on Saturday, Omaha also obviously likely wasn't great at times either. Most if not all of these flights wouldn't have had passengers at all.
It wasn't necessarily "diversions." These were more re-positioning flights than anything. i.e. Southwest 8804 that flew to Albany's plane arrived from Austin and was supposed to operate a flight to Midway. That flight got cancelled. Southwest decided the plane and crew would be better served in Albany to get a plane in position for a cancelled Midway to Albany flight the next day.Bob from Omaha wrote: Sun Nov 30, 2025 9:55 pm I'm assuming it was weather related diversions. Some airports were closed for a time.
This will be good to get fares down! $69 each way it looks. They are also adding DSM-PHX too.SkyWarrior55 wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 1:36 pm https://news.flyfrontier.com/frontier-a ... to-mexico/
OMA-PHX three times a week starting March 25th.
That is a really odd addition. You've already got Southwest and American flying to PHX and Allegiant to Mesa.SkyWarrior55 wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 1:36 pm https://news.flyfrontier.com/frontier-a ... to-mexico/
OMA-PHX three times a week starting March 25th.
With the number of travelers on the route, it tends to make sense that Frontier could make this work. What doesn't make sense is it starts 2 weeks after spring break. Flights are Monday, Wednesday and Fridays.Mr.Nuke wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 3:01 pmThat is a really odd addition. You've already got Southwest and American flying to PHX and Allegiant to Mesa.SkyWarrior55 wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 1:36 pm https://news.flyfrontier.com/frontier-a ... to-mexico/
OMA-PHX three times a week starting March 25th.
Wondering how much of the decline is due to cancellations. Carrier airops are up over 7%.Mr.Nuke wrote: Tue Dec 16, 2025 11:58 am November down 2.9% down 1.0% for the year now.
https://www.flyoma.com/wp-content/uploa ... istics.pdf
Potentially most if not all of it. We knew seats were supposed to be up over last year. The 29th alone, 10% of flights were cancelled.Bob from Omaha wrote: Tue Dec 16, 2025 3:57 pm Wondering how much of the decline is due to cancellations. Carrier airops are up over 7%.
Last December OMA carried over 400k so should/could finish over 5.2M
A lot of it depends on what they actually want from Sun Country. On its face, there is hardly any route overlap. Any new routes would basically come from dismantling the existing Sun Country network out of MSP and allocating the planes elsewhere. The extent to which that occurs and where the plans would go is basically impossible to tell from the outside.BuildTaller wrote: Tue Jan 13, 2026 10:18 am Not much chatter online about the Allegiant / Sun Country merger. I'm hoping this gives us a new destination or two.
Yeah flyertalk really isn't going to care as it is much more oriented towards frequent fliers on airlines with loyalty programs. As you found airliners.net would be the place to go to read discussion about the merger, and quite frankly I didn't find it that informative. A lot of baseless speculation about what it means for MSP, etc.BuildTaller wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 1:05 pm I'm mostly just surprised there's not much chatter. I haven't checked airliners but the flyertalk post had just one reply when I checked yesterday.
I just checked airliners.net It's a 5 page thread. Ha! Time to go see what they say.
It will be interesting to see what they do. It wouldn't be entirely out of their current strategy to say fly from somewhere like OMA to PVR or Jamaica if they do chose to go international i.e. a smaller city point to point to a leisure destination. I think the focus on that A.net thread on CUN is a bit misguided in that regard as pretty much everyone, especially in the Midwest, that has a FIS for customs and immigration has CUN flights already.BuildTaller wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 3:19 pm Yeah, that was a long read. I wonder if we could catch an international option with the merged Allegiant and our new international abilities in a few years. Like you said, it just depends on what they want out of the deal.
Cancellations or losses due to Breeze in LNK?Mr.Nuke wrote: Tue Feb 17, 2026 2:08 pm January down -0.9% over last year.
https://www.flyoma.com/wp-content/uploa ... istics.pdf
Who knows? It isn't Breeze... the numbers are in line with December. The fact the ULCCs are up points to potentially broader economic issues. As always I can go back and look at loads/flights cancelled or whatever in 4 months and maybe find out more? (that probably won't happen).CrankyOldDude wrote: Tue Feb 17, 2026 2:11 pmCancellations or losses due to Breeze in LNK?Mr.Nuke wrote: Tue Feb 17, 2026 2:08 pm January down -0.9% over last year.
https://www.flyoma.com/wp-content/uploa ... istics.pdf
Jeff also hinted that the airport would change the Eppley Airfield name.BRoss wrote: Sun Feb 22, 2026 6:02 pmI would sure hope sojoleo wrote: Sun Feb 22, 2026 12:27 pm Omaha looks like it is in nearly identical construction schedule to Omaha from visual observation of both.
Speaking of schedule, Grow Omaha posted that construction has now hit the halfway point. Some other interesting things mentioned:
- The number of elevators will be quadrupled.
- The number of escalators will be tripled.
- On top of the new third skywalk, the existing skywalks will also be totally renovated with new glass and design elements to match the upgraded terminal.
