{"id":113590,"date":"2024-08-24T04:45:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T18:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-does-oklahomas-will-rogers-world-airport-want-to-change-its-name\/"},"modified":"2024-08-24T04:45:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T18:45:16","slug":"why-does-oklahomas-will-rogers-world-airport-want-to-change-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=113590","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Oklahomas Will Rogers World Airport Want To Change Its Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Oklahoma City is betting big on a name change to rejuvenate its local airport. The city aspires to <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/oklahoma-city-airport-eyes-international-expansion\/\">welcome international flights next Spring<\/a>. OKC, currently known as Will Rogers World Airport, after an American vaudeville performer, actor, and aviator. A bid to change the airport name has seen airport officials discuss it in depth at a June trust meeting, and it has been sent to the city council for signoff. The new name would be <em>Will Rogers International Airport. <\/em>    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKC is aiming to welcome international flights by next spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,595,7114,5012,645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviation-news","category-namechange","category-oklahoma-city","category-southwest-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113591,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113590\/revisions\/113591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}