Airport in Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Jacksonville International Airport
(
IATA
:
JAX
,
ICAO
:
KJAX
,
FAA
LID
:
JAX
) is a civil-military public airport 13 miles (21 km) north of
Downtown
Jacksonville
, in
Duval County
,
Florida
. It is owned and operated by the
Jacksonville Aviation Authority
.
History
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Construction started in 1965 on a new airport to handle travel to nearby
naval bases
. The new airport was dedicated on September 1, 1968, replacing
Imeson Field
.
[4]
Terrain precluded lengthening the runways at Imeson, a necessity with the inception of commercial jet airliners. A new idea at JIA was separating departing and arriving passengers on different sides of the terminal. This is no longer the case, and the airport now uses the more typical layout with departing passengers on an upper level with an elevated roadway, and arriving passengers on the lower level.
The new airport was slow to expand, only serving two million passengers a year by 1982, but it served over five million annually by 1999 and an expansion plan was approved in 2000. The first phase, which included rebuilding the landside terminal, the central square and main concessions area, as well as consolidating the security checkpoints at one location, and more parking capacity was completed in 2004?2005. In 2007, 6,319,016 passengers were processed.
The second phase of the expansion program
[5]
was carried out over three years, commencing in mid-2006 and projected to cost about $170 million. Concourses A and C were completely rebuilt; the former concourses have been demolished. Work on Concourse B was given a low priority because the capacities of the rebuilt Concourses A and C were more than adequate for existing demand. The expansion was designed by
Reynolds, Smith & Hills
(RS&H).
[6]
The economic downturn of 2009 caused a decrease in passengers and flights. This led the JAA to commence the demolition of Concourse B in June 2009 because it was safer and easier for the contractor. After the debris was removed, asphalt was laid to provide space for ground equipment parking. The concourse will be rebuilt when passenger traffic increases, which the JAA had originally projected would occur in 2013 but did not materialize.
[7]
[8]
A section of the old concourse eventually became part of an airline club lounge which opened in 2019.
Expansion
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In 2018, the airport handled 6,460,253 passengers, breaking the previous record set in 2007.
[9]
7,186,639 passengers were handled in 2019.
[10]
This increase in traffic prompted the JAA to revive the plan to rebuild concourse B.
[11]
On May 10, 2024, ground was broken on a new Concourse B. The concourse will have six additional gates, with the ability to expand to up to 10 additional gates. The design of concourses A and C also allow them to be extended to accommodate additional gates. In 2019, RS&H and
Jacobs Engineering
were chosen to perform the design, while
Balfour Beatty
was selected as the construction manager for the concourse B project.
[12]
By 2022 traffic recovered to over 6.5 million passengers annually and the expansion project was restarted. Concourse B is anticipated to be completed by the end of 2026.
[13]
Operations
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Facilities
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The airport covers 7,911 acres (3,201 ha) and has two concrete
runways
: 08/26, 10,000 x 150 ft (3,048 x 46 m) and 14/32, 7,701 x 150 ft (2,347 x 46 m).
[1]
[14]
The
terminal
at JIA is composed of a baggage claim area, on the first floor and a ticketing area on the second floor, at the front of the structure. Past baggage claim and ticketing is the mezzanine, where shops, restaurants and the security checkpoint are located. Beyond the mezzanine are the airport's Concourses A and C, which include 10
gates
each (for a total of 20), along with other shops and restaurants.
[15]
The airport also has a
Delta Sky Club
on Concourse A and a multi-airline passenger club located behind the airside food court.
There are three galleries located off of the main courtyard before the security checkpoint. One features an art exhibit, the second houses a revolving exhibit about a Jacksonville-area landmark or institution, and the third houses a permanent exhibit highlighting the history of aviation in the region.
The airport's two runways form a "V" pattern (with the tip of the "V" pointing west). A plan exists to build two more runways, each paralleling one existing runway. The one alongside the existing southern runway will be built first. No date has been set.
In the year ending February 28, 2023, the airport had 99,616 aircraft operations, an average of 273 per day: 63% scheduled commercial, 19%
general aviation
, 14%
air taxi
and 4% military. In February 2023, there were 72 aircraft based at this airport: 3 single-engine, 3 multi-engine, 46 jet and 20 military.
[1]
Military facilities
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Concurrent with the closure of Imeson Airport, the
125th Fighter-Interceptor Group
(125 FIG) of the
Florida Air National Guard
(FANG) relocated to Jacksonville International Airport. Military Construction (MILCON) funds provided for the establishment of
Jacksonville Air National Guard Base
in the southwest quadrant of the airport and placement of
USAF
-style emergency
arresting gear
on the JAX runways. Upgraded from group to wing status and redesignated as the
125th Fighter Wing
(125 FW) in the early 1990s, the wing is the host unit for Jacksonville ANGB and operates
F-15C
and
F-15D Eagle
aircraft. The 125 FW is operationally-gained by the
Air Combat Command
(ACC).
Jacksonville ANGB is basically a small
air force base
, albeit without the military housing, military hospital or other infrastructure of major
U.S. Air Force
installations. The
Air National Guard
provides a fully equipped USAF Crash Fire Rescue station to augment the airport's own fire department for both on-airport structural fires and
aircraft rescue and firefighting
(ARFF) purposes. The base employs approximately 300 full-time military personnel (
ART
and
AGR
) and 1,000 part-time military personnel who are traditional air national guardsmen.
[16]
Airlines and destinations
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Passenger
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Airlines
| Destinations
| Refs
|
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Allegiant Air
| Cincinnati
,
Harrisburg
,
[17]
Indianapolis
,
Knoxville
,
[17]
Nashville
,
Pittsburgh
,
Washington?Dulles
Seasonal:
Belleville/St. Louis
,
Columbus?Rickenbacker
,
Flint
,
[18]
Grand Rapids
,
Norfolk
| [19]
|
American Airlines
| Charlotte
,
Dallas/Fort Worth
,
Miami
,
Philadelphia
,
Phoenix?Sky Harbor
,
[20]
Washington?National
Seasonal:
Chicago?O'Hare
| [21]
|
American Eagle
| Chicago?O'Hare
,
Miami
,
Philadelphia
,
Washington?National
| [21]
|
Breeze Airways
| Hartford
,
Las Vegas
,
Los Angeles
,
New Orleans
,
Norfolk
,
Providence
,
Pittsburgh
[22]
Seasonal:
Columbus?Glenn
,
Raleigh/Durham
,
Richmond
,
San Diego
,
[23]
White Plains
(resumes June 22, 2024)
[24]
| [25]
|
Delta Air Lines
| Atlanta
,
Boston
,
Detroit
,
Minneapolis/St. Paul
,
New York?JFK
| [26]
|
Delta Connection
| New York?JFK
,
New York?LaGuardia
| [26]
|
Frontier Airlines
| Cleveland
,
Dallas/Fort Worth
,
[27]
Philadelphia
,
San Juan
Seasonal:
Denver
| [28]
|
JetBlue
| Boston
,
Fort Lauderdale
,
[29]
New York?JFK
| [30]
|
Southwest Airlines
| Atlanta
,
Baltimore
,
Chicago?Midway
,
Dallas?Love
,
Denver
,
Houston?Hobby
,
Nashville
,
St. Louis
[31]
[32]
| [33]
|
Sun Country Airlines
| Seasonal:
Minneapolis/St. Paul
[34]
|
|
United Airlines
| Chicago?O'Hare
,
Denver
,
Houston?Intercontinental
,
Newark
,
Washington?Dulles
| [35]
|
United Express
| Seasonal:
Chicago?O'Hare
,
Houston?Intercontinental
,
Newark
,
Washington?Dulles
| [35]
|
Cargo
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Statistics
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Passenger traffic
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The 2023 fiscal year (10/1/2022-9/30/2023) set a record for passenger numbers at Jacksonville International Airport. handling 7,306,171 passengers, which was a 14.4% increase from the prior fiscal year.
[36]
Top destinations
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Busiest domestic routes from JAX (January 2023 ? December 2023)
[37]
Rank
|
City
|
Passengers
|
Carriers
|
1
|
Atlanta, Georgia
|
711,000
|
Delta, Southwest
|
2
|
Charlotte, North Carolina
|
319,000
|
American
|
3
|
Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
|
256,000
|
American
|
4
|
Baltimore, Maryland
|
181,000
|
Southwest
|
5
|
New York?JFK, New York
|
178,000
|
Delta, JetBlue
|
6
|
Newark, New Jersey
|
156,000
|
United
|
7
|
Chicago?O'Hare, Illinois
|
146,000
|
American, United
|
8
|
New York?LaGuardia, New York
|
146,000
|
Delta, JetBlue
|
9
|
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
143,000
|
American, Frontier
|
10
|
Miami, Florida
|
134,000
|
American
|
Airline market share
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Largest airlines at JAX
(November 2022 ? October 2023)
[38]
Rank
|
Airline
|
Passengers
|
Share
|
1
|
American Airlines
|
1,663,000
|
23.35%
|
2
|
Delta Air Lines
|
1,601,000
|
22.48%
|
3
|
Southwest Airlines
|
1,094,000
|
15.36%
|
4
|
United Airlines
|
785,000
|
11.02%
|
5
|
JetBlue Airways
|
608,000
|
8.54%
|
|
Other
|
1,372,000
|
19.26%
|
Ground transportation
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Jacksonville International Airport has direct public transit service to
Jacksonville Transportation Authority
's
bus
network. The Route 1
[39]
bus connects the airport to downtown Jacksonville, with connections to
Greyhound Bus Lines
and to the
Jacksonville Skyway
monorail system.
Accidents and incidents
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On October 4, 1971, George M. Giffe Jr. hijacked a plane in
Nashville, Tennessee
, then forced the pilot to fly to Jacksonville, where Giffe killed his wife, the pilot and himself when cornered by the
FBI
.
[40]
On December 6, 1984,
Provincetown-Boston Airlines
Flight 1039
crashed on takeoff, killing 11 passengers and 2 crew on board. The debris from the Tampa-bound flight burned near Lem Turner Road. The 1986
National Transportation Safety Board
report cited
elevator trim
control system failure, causing separation of the
horizontal stabilizer
.
[41]
See also
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References
[
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- ^
a
b
c
FAA Airport Form 5010 for JAX
PDF
, effective February 22, 2024.
- ^
"Jacksonville International Airport"
.
www.flyjax.com
. Retrieved
April 13,
2023
.
- ^
JACKSONVILLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TRAFFIC SUMMARY REPORT
(PDF)
(Report). December 2023.
- ^
"Dedication program, Jacksonville International Airport
- ^
"Jacksonville International Airport"
.
www.jaa.aero
.
- ^
"Reynolds, Smith & Hills ? Aviation Building Projects"
. Archived from
the original
on June 19, 2012.
- ^
Bauerlein, David (June 4, 2019).
"Economy soars, but memories of Great Recession linger in Jacksonville"
.
The Florida Times-Union
. Retrieved
June 8,
2019
.
- ^
Gibbons, Timothy J. (June 22, 2009).
"Demolition of JIA's Concourse B brings end of an era"
.
Florida Times-Union
.
- ^
"JAX Sets New Record for Annual Passenger Traffic"
(Press release). Jacksonville Aviation Authority. January 24, 2019
. Retrieved
January 21,
2020
.
- ^
"Enplanements by Airline"
(PDF)
.
flyjacksonville.com
. Jacksonville Aviation Authority. May 31, 2021.
Archived
(PDF)
from the original on August 30, 2021
. Retrieved
September 23,
2022
.
- ^
Burmeister, Caren (March 1, 2019).
"With traffic surging Jacksonville International Airport adding 3rd concourse"
.
Jacksonville Daily Record
. Retrieved
May 17,
2019
.
- ^
Colburn, Allison (May 2, 2019).
"JAA selects design team for new concourse"
.
Jacksonville Business Journal
. Retrieved
October 4,
2019
.
- ^
"JIA breaks ground on Concourse B"
.
News4Jax
. Retrieved
May 18,
2024
.
- ^
"JAX airport data at skyvector.com"
.
skyvector.com
. Retrieved
August 18,
2022
.
- ^
"Terminal Maps"
.
Jacksonville International Airport
. Retrieved
June 13,
2014
.
- ^
Pike, John.
"125th Fighter Wing [125th FW]"
.
GlobalSecurity.org
.
- ^
a
b
"Airline announces new nonstop flight, low fares from Harrisburg to Florida"
. February 12, 2024.
- ^
Newsroom, Mid-Michigan NOW (December 7, 2021).
"Flint Bishop Airport announces new routes to Boston and Jacksonville"
.
WEYI
. Retrieved
April 13,
2023
.
- ^
"Cheap airline tickets, low cost nonstop flights | Route Map"
.
- ^
"American Airlines adding more flights from Phoenix this winter"
.
- ^
a
b
"Flight schedules and notifications"
.
American Airlines
. Retrieved
June 3,
2024
.
- ^
"Breeze Airways adds two Florida destinations from T.F. Green. Here's where they're flying"
.
The Providence Journal
. July 18, 2023
. Retrieved
July 18,
2023
.
- ^
Weisberg, Lori (January 9, 2024).
"A new low-cost airline is coming to San Diego and with it five new nonstop destinations"
.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
. Retrieved
June 3,
2024
.
- ^
"Breeze Airways adds new destinations to summer schedule at Westchester County Airport"
.
lohud
. April 24, 2024
. Retrieved
April 24,
2024
.
- ^
"Breeze Airways"
.
- ^
a
b
"Flight Schedules"
.
Delta Airlines
. Retrieved
June 3,
2024
.
- ^
"Frontier Adding Flights from DFW to Jacksonville, Pittsburg"
. Retrieved
December 15,
2023
.
- ^
"Route Map"
.
Frontier
. Retrieved
January 21,
2020
.
- ^
"JetBlue Will Add 30 New Routes, Launch Mint® Service at Newark"
. JetBlue Airways. June 18, 2020
. Retrieved
June 18,
2020
.
- ^
"JetBlue Airlines Timetable"
.
JebBlue
. Archived from
the original
on July 13, 2013
. Retrieved
January 29,
2017
.
- ^
"Southwest Airlines Sep 2023 Network Additions"
.
Aeroroutes
. Retrieved
March 6,
2023
.
- ^
"March 2023 Flight Schedule"
.
Southwest.com
. Retrieved
June 3,
2024
.
- ^
"Check Flight Schedules"
.
Southwest Airlines
. Retrieved
June 3,
2024
.
- ^
"Sun Country Announces Service From Minneapolis to Jacksonville, Fla"
.
Jacksonville International Airport
. October 19, 2021.
- ^
a
b
"Timetable"
.
United Airlines
. Archived from
the original
on January 28, 2017
. Retrieved
June 3,
2024
.
- ^
"JAX Airport Statistics For Fiscal Year2023"
(PDF)
.
flyjacksonville.com
. Retrieved
February 28,
2024
.
- ^
"Transtats"
.
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
. Retrieved
March 28,
2024
.
- ^
"Jacksonville International"
. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
. Retrieved
January 24,
2024
.
- ^
"Map - Jacksonville Transportation Authority Schedules and Routes"
.
schedules.jtafla.com
. Retrieved
December 8,
2022
.
- ^
Hargrove, Brantley (August 27, 2009).
"A Nashville hijacking 38 years ago set the standard on how not to handle hostage negotiations"
.
Nashville Scene
. Retrieved
January 21,
2020
.
- ^
Freeman, Clayton (May 4, 2019).
"Commercial flight crash not Jacksonville's first"
. Florida Times-Union
. Retrieved
March 24,
2022
.
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