Tulsa International Airport question...

[Wrinkle]

quote:Originally posted by Perspicuity85

The International status is given to any airport that has Customs offices on-site, regardless of the daily destinations served.

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From: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07009/752402-84.stm  1-09-2007

"Flight 37 from Zurich, Switzerland, to Dallas was diverted to Tulsa, Okla., where it sat for 10 hours. Pilots couldn't take off because they reached federal limits on duty time, American says. Tulsa doesn't have a Customs and Immigration facility so no one could get off. By the time the plane reached Dallas, landing at 1:33 a.m., according to Federal Aviation Administration data, passengers had been on board more 22 hours."

[sgrizzle]

The customs office is located by the cargo facilities at 2222 North Cargo Road (south side of the airport.)

[deinstein]

quote:Originally posted by Wrinkle

quote:Originally posted by Perspicuity85

The International status is given to any airport that has Customs offices on-site, regardless of the daily destinations served.

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From: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07009/752402-84.stm  1-09-2007

"Flight 37 from Zurich, Switzerland, to Dallas was diverted to Tulsa, Okla., where it sat for 10 hours. Pilots couldn't take off because they reached federal limits on duty time, American says. Tulsa doesn't have a Customs and Immigration facility so no one could get off. By the time the plane reached Dallas, landing at 1:33 a.m., according to Federal Aviation Administration data, passengers had been on board more 22 hours."

Best plane ride ever?!

[B)]

[citizen72]

quote:Originally posted by tulsa1603

Why are our gates numbered up to 55 (20-33 and 51-59) when we only have 18?  A friend of mine asked me this and when I flew in tonight from Chicago (since when is Chicago a warmer destination??), it reminded me to ask.

When the terminal was designed in the early 60's there was a third concourse allowed for to the west of the terminal. Then too, when the terminal was built they were still using a lot of ground access aircraft that serviced numerous small towns in the area. Thus, there was ground level gate lobbies included in the original concept.

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by citizen72

quote:Originally posted by tulsa1603

Why are our gates numbered up to 55 (20-33 and 51-59) when we only have 18?  A friend of mine asked me this and when I flew in tonight from Chicago (since when is Chicago a warmer destination??), it reminded me to ask.

When the terminal was designed in the early 60's there was a third concourse allowed for to the west of the terminal. Then too, when the terminal was built they were still using a lot of ground access aircraft that services numerous small towns in the area. Thus, there was ground level gate lobbies included in the original concept.

Right.  I remember when the "new" airport opened.  The first time I ever flew was around 1965 from Tulsa to Dallas via Braniff International.  I remember the airport had "red" and "yellow" concourses, and just as many ground level gates (probably more) as upper level gates.  On that first flight of mine (just a kid of about , it was out of a ground level gate; you walked outside on the tarmac and up the stairs to the plane.  Me and my brother in our "Sunday best" sport coats and neckties.  That was back when flying was still considered a luxury and people dressed accordingly.

[tulsa1603]

quote:Originally posted by Steve

quote:Originally posted by citizen72

quote:Originally posted by tulsa1603

Why are our gates numbered up to 55 (20-33 and 51-59) when we only have 18?  A friend of mine asked me this and when I flew in tonight from Chicago (since when is Chicago a warmer destination??), it reminded me to ask.

When the terminal was designed in the early 60's there was a third concourse allowed for to the west of the terminal. Then too, when the terminal was built they were still using a lot of ground access aircraft that services numerous small towns in the area. Thus, there was ground level gate lobbies included in the original concept.

Right.  I remember when the "new" airport opened.  The first time I ever flew was around 1965 from Tulsa to Dallas via Braniff International.  I remember the airport had "red" and "yellow" concourses, and just as many ground level gates (probably more) as upper level gates.  On that first flight of mine (just a kid of about , it was out of a ground level gate; you walked outside on the tarmac and up the stairs to the plane.  Me and my brother in our "Sunday best" sport coats and neckties.  That was back when flying was still considered a luxury and people dressed accordingly.

I knew there had to be a logical explanation!

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by tulsa1603

quote:Originally posted by Steve

quote:Originally posted by citizen72

quote:Originally posted by tulsa1603

Why are our gates numbered up to 55 (20-33 and 51-59) when we only have 18?  A friend of mine asked me this and when I flew in tonight from Chicago (since when is Chicago a warmer destination??), it reminded me to ask.

When the terminal was designed in the early 60's there was a third concourse allowed for to the west of the terminal. Then too, when the terminal was built they were still using a lot of ground access aircraft that services numerous small towns in the area. Thus, there was ground level gate lobbies included in the original concept.

Right.  I remember when the "new" airport opened.  The first time I ever flew was around 1965 from Tulsa to Dallas via Braniff International.  I remember the airport had "red" and "yellow" concourses, and just as many ground level gates (probably more) as upper level gates.  On that first flight of mine (just a kid of about , it was out of a ground level gate; you walked outside on the tarmac and up the stairs to the plane.  Me and my brother in our "Sunday best" sport coats and neckties.  That was back when flying was still considered a luxury and people dressed accordingly.

I knew there had to be a logical explanation!

Yep!  The current TIA gate numbering convention is undoubtably a holdover from the old days when they had many more ground level gates in operation and excluded numbers from the old municipal airport (I have vague memories of that one too.)

Back in the early-mid 1960s, my family would make an evening at the airport as entertainment.  We would go to the old Sky Chef restaurant in the new (current) airport for dinner and then sit out on one of the observation decks to watch the "new" jet airliners come in and take off.  Passenger jet service had been in the US since around 1958, but was a new thing in Tulsa in 1963-1965.  Didn't take much to fascinate us children back then!