First departing passengers from new KCI terminal to ride Southwest’s Missouri One

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri One, a particular livery of a Southwest Airways Boeing 737-800, is the plane scheduled to take passengers on the primary departing flight out of the brand new single terminal at Kansas Metropolis Worldwide Airport.

The airplane, with a portray highlighting the Missouri state flag, is about to take off at 5 a.m. Tuesday sure for Chicago’s Halfway Airport, the primary flight out of the brand new KCI terminal.

The departure is a part of a sequence of milestones for the brand new terminal. Late Monday night time, the ultimate departing flight from the previous terminals, a Southwest Airways flight, is about to depart at 10:25 p.m., additionally sure for Chicago Halfway.

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The ultimate arriving passengers to the previous terminals are set to reach early Tuesday morning at 12:28 a.m. on a Delta Airways flight from Salt Lake Metropolis.

The primary arriving flight to the brand new terminal will come at 7:40 a.m. on a Southwest Airways flight out of Chicago Halfway.

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Southwest Airways officers, together with former Chairman, President and CEO Gary Kelly, initially unveiled Missouri One in a particular ceremony at Kansas Metropolis Worldwide Airport in April 2015. The ceremony marked the then-30 years Southwest Airways had operated in Missouri.

A Southwest Airways press launch from 2015 famous that the airline’s first service in Missouri got here in 1982 in Kansas Metropolis.

Kansas Metropolis, Missouri’s mayor on the time, Sly James, was in attendance on the ceremony. James was additionally current at dedication ceremonies of the brand new terminal on Tuesday.

A Kansas Metropolis Aviation Division official mentioned the division had been working with Southwest Airways for a number of months to rearrange the logistics of Missouri One’s flight.

In keeping with Flight Conscious, Missouri One, which carries the Federal Aviation Administration tail variety of N280WN, arrived round 8:30 p.m. Monday out of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Worldwide Airport.

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