Eppley Airfield
Eppley Airfield
Eppley Airfield (IATA: OMA, ICAO: KOMA, FAA LID: OMA), also known as Omaha Airport, is an airport in the midwestern United States, located three miles (5 km) northeast of downtown Omaha, Nebraska. On the west bank of the Missouri River in Douglas County, it is the busiest airport in Nebraska, with more arrivals and departures than all other airports in the state combined. It is classified as a medium hub airport by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). It is owned and operated by the Omaha Airport Authority (OAA).
Location
41.303°N, 95.894°O · 300 m s. n. m. (984 ft)
General data
Runways · 3
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 6
Tower
Ground
Clearance delivery
ATIS (automatic information)
Approach
UNICOM
Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.
History
Eppley Airfield began as an extension of Levi Carter Park in 1925. That year, the City of Omaha acquired 200 acres (0.8 km2) of cleared land on the east side of Carter Lake. Almost immediately, planes started landing and taking off there. A lawsuit was filed against the city in 1927 when a group wanted to build a hangar there. The lawsuit failed, and the land was called both the Omaha Municipal Airport and the American Legion Airport.
The April 1957 Official Airline Guide shows 42 scheduled airline departures per day, with 23 by United Airlines and 19 by Braniff International Airways. In 1960, the airport was named for Eugene C. Eppley, founder of the Eppley Hotel chain, whose estate gave the city a $1 million grant, matched by the federal government, to ready the then-Omaha Municipal Airport for jet aircraft. The first jets to land in Omaha were United Boeing 720s in August 1960.
The original terminal building opened in 1961 was designed by James C. Buckley, Inc. Concourse B opened in 1970, and was remodeled when Concourse A opened in 1986.
In 2024, Eppley Airfield set an all-time record with 5,277,326 passengers served.
Omaha Airport Authority
Created in 1959, the Omaha Airport Authority is governed by a five-member, appointed board and is responsible for sole jurisdiction and operation of Eppley Airfield.
Hubs and operations
Midwest Airlines, then known as Midwest Express Airlines, operated a hub at Eppley Airfield from 1995 to 2002 with flights to Milwaukee, Newark, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Orlando, San Diego, and Washington, D.C.; the airport remained a focus city with nonstop flights to Milwaukee and Washington, D.C. until the airline merged with Frontier Airlines in 2009.
Over the course of 2024, Southwest Airlines, American, and Delta were the largest carriers and served 37.1, 20.6, and 17.5 percent of passengers, respectively.
The airport has an on-site U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facility for international, charter, and private flights. Eppley's first commercial, international flight began May 1, 2018, when Air Canada Express launched a daily flight to Toronto Pearson International Airport; this service ended on October 4, 2019.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 1,212 aircraft documented between 2006 and 2025.
Types seen here
Embraer E170 / E175234
Bombardier CRJ210
Embraer ERJ 135 / 145192
McDonnell Douglas MD-80134
Boeing 737115
Airbus A31986
Airbus A32045
Boeing 71724
Boeing 75713
Boeing 737 MAX8Airlines with documented aircraft
Busiest routes from here
A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.
Airlines operating here · 10
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
Photo: Original uploader was Americasroof at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 2.5 · view original
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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BibTeX
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