Omaha Airport Authority officials announced that for the first time, Eppley Airfield (OMA) saw more than a half a million passengers fly in and out of Omaha’s airport in a single month.
A record-setting total of 514,758 passengers in June broke the previous record set the month prior. Visit Omaha statistics show Omaha hotels broke records in June as well. Not only was June the best June on record, it was the best month on record with 78 percent of all hotel rooms filled during the month. Hotel revenue also hit an all-time high with visitors spending close to $45 million on Omaha hotel rooms in June.
A large contributor to June’s success is always the NCAA Men’s College World Series and the Triple Crown Slumpbusters youth baseball tournament. Despite no games played on Thursday or Friday of the 2024 Series, more people stayed in hotels this year than last year. Those hotel stays were also bolstered by the fact that a total of 732 teams traveled to Omaha for the Slumpbuster tournament, 57 more than last year. The final stats during the 12 days of the CWS show there were 101,954 hotel room nights occupied in 2024 compared to 97,422 room nights occupied in 2023.
Side note: There were actually more hotel rooms filled in June 2024 than there were in 2016 when Omaha hosted a sold-out U.S. Swim Trials and the NCAA Men’s College World Series in June of that year. In 2016, 213,667 hotel room nights were filled, in 2024 a total of 232,939 were filled, almost 20,000 more this year.