Tulsa International (KTUL)

Tulsa International is the approach seat for Green Country and the home of American's Tech Ops maintenance base. Two north-south parallel runways handle the airline work, the longer one to the east, with a single crosswind runway crossing the field from west to east.

Tulsa runs south flow as the prevailing configuration under Oklahoma's southerly winds, north flow as its reciprocal, working both parallels; the crosswind 08/26 stays landable but out of the flows. Unlike Wichita, Tulsa publishes one real arrival, the VINTA THREE off the northeast, so a share of your inbounds descend via the procedure while the rest feed the close-in approach fixes; there are no published departures at all, so every departure leaves on a heading you assign. American leads the airline mix on a heavy Envoy and SkyWest regional feed, with Southwest close behind, then Delta, United, Allegiant, Alaska and a seasonal Sun Country Cancun run, plus FedEx and UPS freighters. The character underneath is a corporate bizjet base, with most light training worked next door at Riverside.

This is the Steady tier: a Class C approach seat a notch busier than Wichita, with a real published arrival and a port of entry, but well short of the metro hubs.

Runway layout