If you thought your TSA experiences have been rough, read about this one.
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Will Rogers World Airport’s strong revenue base includes coffee shops, parking and other retail business.
Will Rogers World Airport’s strong revenue base includes coffee shops, parking and other retail business.
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OKC airport’s revenue is mostly grounded
Airport revenues from concessions and parking have doubled over the past 10 years, despite the fact that passenger traffic has only increased by 11 percent during that same time period. Officials say there are multiple factors for the increase in revenue, including a more efficient security process.
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Up and away
The announcement came in a March 4 media release from Will Rogers World Airport. Airport officials, however, said it won’t be too many more years before the airport cannot add new flights or handle larger aircraft or even international flights with the airport’s current configuration and capacity. But airport officials have a plan. Mark Kranenburg […]
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LETTERS
For an agency that likes to collect phone numbers and put them in a computer and store them — why do they not have a phone number where one would expect to find it? I might like to strip-search an airport screener at an airport, too. I thought we were supposed to have equal rights […]
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7 TSA-banned items Wayne Coyne has yet to take through airport security (we think)
1. Reebok Super Smash Kashmir Willow cricket bat 2. Krylon Brushed Metallic Indoor Satin spray paint can (caramel latte color, 11 oz.) 3. Dragon Nunchucks (“The Choice of Better Ninjas Everywhere,” with handsome dragon inlay design and ball bearing swivel, 30 inches) 4. Black Cat Gatlin’ Pack roman candles (18 inches, eight per pack) 5. […]
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Drive-In
(How meta it would’ve been to see this at an actual drive-in; I’ll settle for its DVD debut from Sony Pictures’ Choice Collection, rather than the alternative, which is to never see it at all.) Like American Graffiti three years before it, the movie follows a select handful of youngsters, mostly teens, over the course […]
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Room for improvement
Credit: Mark Hancock A recurring sentiment in the 24-page report is the “ugliness” of the corridor. The study emphasized the corridor’s role as a first impression for out-of-town guests leaving the airport: Miles of concrete, vacant store fronts and 1960s-era apartment complexes are the first glimpse many visitors have of Oklahoma City. “We have been […]
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Turbulent Skies
While the disaster-movie craze of the 1970s and its rebirth in the late 1990s are long behind us, you wouldn’t know it with writer/director Fred Olen Ray’s take, which may as well as have been titled “Turbulence 4.” (Yes, two sequels to “Turbulence” actually got made.) Consider this: An airplane’s maiden flight controlled by new […]
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Land of Oz
above Waitress Linda Hendrix delivers all-you-can-eat breakfasts to Tony Sampson right and T. Valencia at Ozzie’s Diner at Norman’s Max Westheimer Airport terminal. Going to the airport is always a hectic experience, from check-in to takeoff. It’s a rush of security checks, flight delays and claiming baggage all while carting around carry-ons, IDs and boarding […]