Eastern Airlines Selects Kansas City For Its New Headquarters, Adds 165 Jobs

Posted February 21, 2024

Eastern Airlines, LLC and the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City announced it has selected Kansas City, Mo. as its location for its new headquarters.

The decision to move to headquarters will now consolidate operations in Kansas City. The company’s headquarters is now at 11500 N Ambassador Drive in Platte County near the Kansas City International Airport.

Eastern Airlines has had a presence in Kansas City since 2021, according to a release. The company purchased a maintenance, repair and overhaul facility, Alta Aero Technic, LLC, and formed a passenger-to-freighter design company Foxtrot Aero, LLC.

Additionally, the move to Kansas City will create 165 new full-time jobs in the area including maintenance professionals, pilots and flight operations personnel, with an average salary of $96,000.

“Eastern Air Holdings has had a great experience operating two other businesses at MCI, Alta Aero Technic and Foxtrot,” Eastern Airlines chief financial officer Stephen Buscher said in the release. “Kansas City and its airport have a great legacy in our industry. We did look at a number of cities to rebase our headquarters, but the enthusiasm of Missouri and the city combined with the generous assistance of the Missouri Works program made our decision easy. The new terminal and our experience proved that it is a metropolitan area investing in its future, and we are proud to be a part of the new airport community.”

The transition of the company’s previous headquarters to Kansas City at the end of 2023 was a $4.7 million capital investment.

Eastern Airlines’s previous headquarters was located in Wayne, Pennsylvania.