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theschoolofchuck	Post subject: 757's and 737's at Wheeler Downtown Airport (KMKC) Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:56 pm
Joined: Sun Feb 20, 2011 5:00 pm Posts: 1	KMKCtypically serves general aviation and business jets, but recently I've noticed on flight aware and with my own eyes 757's and 737's landing there. It seems odd that airliners that carry 100+ passengers would be landing here instead of KMCI.
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tyketto	Post subject: Re: 757's and 737's at Wheeler Downtown Airport (KMKC) Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:16 am
FlightAware Member Joined: Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:00 pm Posts: 931	theschoolofchuck wrote: KMKCtypically serves general aviation and business jets, but recently I've noticed on flight aware and with my own eyes 757's and 737's landing there. It seems odd that airliners that carry 100+ passengers would be landing here instead of KMCI. Actually, it was the norm for a while. IIRC, KMKC was a TWA hub at one point, before it was moved to KMCI. I believe one of their jets has a permanent home there (may be a B741, or a Connie, I can't remember). but those used to run out of the current configuration there. BL.
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rw812	Post subject: Re: 757's and 737's at Wheeler Downtown Airport (KMKC) Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:33 am
FlightAware Member Joined: Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:00 am Posts: 1602 Location: damiross.net	STL was the TWA hub. Not sure if Kansas City, either MKC or MCI, was ever a true hub. MKC was a maintenance location for TWA even after they had moved flight operations to MCI.
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JetChaser	Post subject: Re: 757's and 737's at Wheeler Downtown Airport (KMKC) Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:23 am
FlightAware Member Joined: Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:00 pm Posts: 90 Location: YYZ	theschoolofchuck wrote: KMKCtypically serves general aviation and business jets, but recently I've noticed on flight aware and with my own eyes 757's and 737's landing there. It seems odd that airliners that carry 100+ passengers would be landing here instead of KMCI. Sports Charters perhaps? JetChaser
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tyketto	Post subject: Re: 757's and 737's at Wheeler Downtown Airport (KMKC) Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:07 pm
FlightAware Member Joined: Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:00 pm Posts: 931	rw812 wrote: STL was the TWA hub. Not sure if Kansas City, either MKC or MCI, was ever a true hub. MKC was a maintenance location for TWA even after they had moved flight operations to MCI. Actually, KMKC was the TWA hub. It all started there. http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/07/36 ... ginal.html BL.
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7express	Post subject: Re: 757's and 737's at Wheeler Downtown Airport (KMKC) Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:20 pm
Joined: Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:00 pm Posts: 21	theschoolofchuck wrote: KMKCtypically serves general aviation and business jets, but recently I've noticed on flight aware and with my own eyes 757's and 737's landing there. It seems odd that airliners that carry 100+ passengers would be landing here instead of KMCI. Sports charters?? I know when teams are playing the Royals (the Kansas City baseball team), those teams usually fly into MKC instead of MCI.
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rw812	Post subject: Re: 757's and 737's at Wheeler Downtown Airport (KMKC) Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:30 pm
FlightAware Member Joined: Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:00 am Posts: 1602 Location: damiross.net	tyketto wrote: rw812 wrote: STL was the TWA hub. Not sure if Kansas City, either MKC or MCI, was ever a true hub. MKC was a maintenance location for TWA even after they had moved flight operations to MCI. Actually, KMKC was the TWA hub. It all started there. http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/07/36 ... ginal.html BL. No. I'm sticking by what I said. Kansas City was never a hub for TWA. It was, at one a time, a focus city. TWA's original headquarters was New York City. It was moved to Kansas City in 1931. In 1975 it was moved back to New York City. The headquarters was moved to Saint Louis about 1993.
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w7psk	Post subject: Re: 757's and 737's at Wheeler Downtown Airport (KMKC) Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 8:04 am
FlightAware Member Joined: Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:00 pm Posts: 254 Location: KPAE	They could be Business Jets. Quite a few 737 (We sell a lot of BBJ's) and 757s are Bizjets.
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Pat206	Post subject: Re: 757's and 737's at Wheeler Downtown Airport (KMKC) Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:05 am
Charter Member Joined: Sun Oct 30, 2005 10:00 am Posts: 962 Location: CYYJ	w7psk wrote: They could be Business Jets. Quite a few 737 (We sell a lot of BBJ's) and 757s are Bizjets. Not with those flight numbers. As suggested, they are MLB charters, see: post134527.html#p134527
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porterjet	Post subject: Re: 757's and 737's at Wheeler Downtown Airport (KMKC) Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:52 am
FlightAware Member Joined: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:00 pm Posts: 2389 Location: KSBP/OEJN	w7psk wrote: They could be Business Jets. Quite a few 737 (We sell a lot of BBJ's) and 757s are Bizjets. How many BBJ's are there now?
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rw812	Post subject: Re: 757's and 737's at Wheeler Downtown Airport (KMKC) Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 12:14 pm
FlightAware Member Joined: Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:00 am Posts: 1602 Location: damiross.net	The Boeing site shows the following through June 2012: 737-700BBJ: 114 orders, 108 delivered 737-800BBJ: 21 orders, 18 delivered 737-900BBJ: 7 ordered, 6 delivered Totals: 142 orders, 132 delivered Last edited by rw812 on Fri Jul 06, 2012 11:46 am, edited 1 time in total.
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porterjet	Post subject: Re: 757's and 737's at Wheeler Downtown Airport (KMKC) Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:28 am
FlightAware Member Joined: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:00 pm Posts: 2389 Location: KSBP/OEJN	Thanks, I thought they had passed 100 some time ago.
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