The article mentions the first officer.
“It was then that the first officer turned to Gongol and revealed she had never landed at Omaha airport before.”
If this is a problem, then that F.O. doesn't need to be in that job any more.
It's an airport.
It has a runway or three.
Land the friggin' airplane! It doesn't have to be pretty - you can break it if you really have to - but land the plane!
Neither Bob Pearson nor Maurice Qintal had ever landed where they landed on July 23, 1983.
It was a dead-stick landing, necessitated by "fuel exhaustion due to maintenance error". The "airport" was a closed Canadian airbase that Quintal remembered from his days in the service. Part of it had been converted into a drag strip.
Can’t imagine a long straight in with single channel priority would be too taxing, but I guess if she needed a someone to warm the seat then that was good.