Air travel to Eugene
This page contains some information on air travel to Eugene,
and is intended for the use of participants in conferences at the
Department of Mathematics
at the
University of Oregon.
Here is a list of airlines that serve the Eugene airport.
United, Horizon (a commuter line for Alaska),
and Skywest (a commuter line for
Delta) have been in
Eugene for a long time.
Allegiant air is a somewhat more recent arrival.
In the past, several
other airlines have started service to Eugene and then dropped it
after a short time, so the information here may well be outdated
quickly.
As of August 2012,
there are several nonstop flights a day to and from each of
Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and Denver,
and several nonstop flights a week to and from each of
Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Oakland, and Phoenix.
The airline telephone numbers in the following list are from 1993,
and have not been checked since then.
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Alaska Airlines,
tel. 800-426-0333.
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Alaska Airlines serves the western U.S. and locations in Canada,
Mexico, and Russia. Its service to Eugene is via its commuter line
Horizon Air from Portland and Seattle. See the entry for
Horizon Air.
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Delta Airlines,
tel. 800-221-1212.
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Delta Airlines is a major international carrier. It serves
Eugene via its commuter line Skywest Airlines (The Delta
Connection) from Salt Lake City. See the entry for Skywest Airlines.
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Horizon Air, tel. 800-547-9308.
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Horizon Air is a regional airline
associated with Northwest Airlines and Alaska Airlines.
It operates direct flights (using small planes) from Portland and
Seattle to Eugene.
(Its website now redirects to Alaska Airlines.)
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Sky West Airlines (The Delta
Connection),
tel. 800-221-1212 (this is actually Delta Airlines).
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Sky West Airlines is a regional airline
associated with Delta Airlines.
It operates direct flights (using small planes) from Salt Lake City
(a major Delta Airlines hub) to Eugene.
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United Airlines, tel. 800-241-6522.
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United Airlines is a major international carrier. It operates
direct flights using close to normal size planes from San Francisco and
Denver to Eugene.
It has a commuter line, United Express, which
operates direct flights using small planes from Portland and
Seattle to Eugene.
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Allegiant Airlines,
apparently no toll free number.
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Allegiant Airlines is a discount carrier
(but watch for additional fees--they now even charge extra for carry on
bags)
which flies directly between Eugene and each of Los Angeles, Las Vegas,
Oakland, and Phoenix,
but only several days a week.
Allegiant apparently does not sell single tickets involving more than
one flight.
The Eugene airport is about 10 miles (about 15 km) out of town.
The local bus system (Lane Transit District,
2012 fare $1.75 for a single trip with no transfers,
$3.50 for a day pass, exact change only) makes several
trips a day to the airport, but not enough to be very useful.
Airport shuttle:
OmniShuttle,
tel. 800-741-5097 or 541-461-7959, fax 541-461-7981.
Price (as of August 2012): approximately $22.50 to downtown Eugene
and the University
of Oregon campus (including nearby motels);
$5.00 for each additional person in a group.
There are a number of taxi companies in Eugene,
the
Eugene
airport transportation page
currently lists about ten.
Estimated fare without tips (August 2012): $25.00.
The following car rental companies have rental locations at
the airport
(from the
Eugene
airport transportation page,
August 2012, but the page had not been updated for some time):
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Avis
(800-831-2847; 541-688-9053).
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Budget
(800-527-0700; 541-463-0422).
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Enterprise
(800-736-8222; 541-689-7563).
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Hertz
(800-654-3131; 541-688-9333).
Most major U.S. airlines, and a number of foreign ones, serve
the Portland International Airport. This airport is a bit over two
hours by car (on the freeway) from Eugene.
Ground transportation
from there to Eugene, however, is somewhat inconvenient.
One possibility is to get from the
airport to the Greyhound bus terminal in downtown Portland (by taxi,
bus, ...; I don't know the details, but it is some distance).
Then take Greyhound to Eugene.
There are a number of trips daily, taking about 2.5 hours.
Call Greyhound at 800-231-2222 for further information.
The Eugene Greyhound terminal is about a 15-20 minute walk from the
University of Oregon campus.
The local bus system
(Lane Transit District,
2012 fare $1.75 for a single trip with no transfers,
$3.50 for a day pass, exact change only) has frequent service
both to the campus and the motels close to campus.
The Greyhound terminal is directly on the EmX line,
but stops on this line are farther apart than on most bus lines.
(The Dad's Gate station is very close to the math department.)
A web search turned up the following
scheduled service from the Portland Airport to Eugene:
HUT
Portland Airport Shuttle,
August 2012 one way fare $59.00,
to the Phoenix Inn only,
but the Phoenix Inn is right next to the University of Oregon campus.
A visitor found
City2City
Shuttle from the Portland Airport,
May 2013 one way fare $59.00,
apparently to two locations only:
15th and University, on the University of Oregon campus
(but not very close to the Best Western motels)
and the Holiday Inn Express, 2117 Franklin Blvd.
(tel. 866-430-2692), about four blocks east of the easternmost
of the Best Western motels.
I have no experience with either of these.
These are rather more expensive than Greyhound,
but the shared ride shuttle prices I found for Eugene were all
at least $250 one way--more than the plane fare.
Related documents:
This page maintained by
N. Christopher Phillips,
email.
Last significant change: 2 Aug. 2012.
Most information updated then,
but it is not clear whether the sources it was taken from were all
current.
Information on the City2City Shuttle added 9 May 2013.