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Eppley Airfield is a medium hub airport three miles northeast of Omaha, Nebraska, in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States. It is by far the largest airport in Nebraska, serving ten times more passengers than all other Nebraska airports combined, and is named for Eugene C. Eppley, the Eppley Hotel magnate of Omaha, from whose estate $1.0 million was used to convert Omaha Municipal Airport into a jetport in 1959/1960.〔Eppley Grant of $1 Million Gives Omaha Jet Field - ''Lincoln Evening Journal'', 1959-12-31〕 The airport occupies and handles about 70-75 airline flights per day to 20 daily and 3 seasonal non-stop destinations. ==History== The April 1957 OAG shows 42 scheduled airline departures a day: 23 United and 19 Braniff. The first jets were United Airlines 720s in Aug-Sept 1960. On August 6, 1966 Braniff Airways Flight 250 left Kansas City Downtown Airport headed for Eppley and crashed near Falls City, Nebraska, killing all 42 on board. The flight was waiting for weather to clear in Omaha before descending when violent turbulence compromised the structural integrity of the plane. Several films have used Eppley for a few scenes including the 2002 feature film ''About Schmidt'' which included scenes filmed inside and outside the terminal building, and the 2009 feature film ''Up in the Air'' which made use of the south end of the terminal building during filming. The terminal building, opened in 1961, was designed by James C. Buckley, Inc. Concourse B opened in 1970, and it was remodeled in 1986 while Concourse A opened in 1986.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fpr.net/fulfillment/pdf/post_os_omaha_airport_authority.pdf Airport Authority of the City of Omaha )〕 Midwest Airlines, then known as Midwest Express, once had a focus city at Eppley Airfield with flights to Milwaukee, WI, Newark, NJ, Kansas City, MO, Los Angeles, CA, and Washington Reagan; nonstops to Milwaukee and Washington Reagan lasted until the merger with Frontier Airlines in 2010.〔(Frontier and Midwest airlines merge )〕 As of April 2015, Omaha has no international flights. The airport handled more than 4.1 million passengers in 2014. Southwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and American Airlines are the first-, second-, and third-largest carriers and serve about 33 percent, 22 percent, and 22 percent, respectively, of passengers.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eppley Airfield」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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