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Jacksonville International Airport (IATA: JAX, ICAO: KJAX, FAA LID: JAX) is a
public airport located nine miles (14 km) north of the central business district
of Jacksonville, a city in Duval County, Florida, United States.
History
Construction of the airport started in 1965, in order for the city to
accommodate a more cosmopolitan populace which was introduced with the sizable
military base in the region. Jacksonville International was finally opened on
October 31, 1968, replacing the antiquated Imeson Airport. A new idea tried in
the construction of Jacksonville International was the separating of departing
and arriving passengers on two different sides of the terminal. This is no
longer the case though and the airport now utilizes the typical configuration
whereby departing passengers are served on an upper level, accessed via an
elevated roadway, while arriving passengers utilize the lower level of the
terminal.
Initially the airport was slow to expand, only serving two million passengers a
year by 1982. However, the addition of more airline service in the late 1980s
and early 1990s saw the need for more space in the complex. The airport served
over five million passengers annually by 1999, and an airport 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 to a single location, and adding more parking capacity
was completed in 2004-2005. In 2007, 6,319,016 passengers were processed.
The Jacksonville International Airport includes onsite accommodations at the
Clarion Hotel and Conference Center.
Current expansion activities
The second phase of the expansion program is being carried out over three years,
commencing in mid-2006 and is projected to cost about $170 million. It includes
demolishing concourses A and C of the airside terminal (which for the most part
are built to late-1960's standards), to be completely replaced with more
spacious, modern facilities which will also house more gates. These two new
concourses are slated to open by the spring of 2009. Concourse B however, will
be rebuilt at a later date. Also included in the program is a further expansion
of the parking system and a new automated baggage screening system.
In order to accommodate constructing the new airside terminal and apron, most of
the western-facing gates in concourses A and C have been permanently closed and
their jetways removed.
The new Concourse A is expected to open sometime around May or June 2008 and the
new Concourse C is also expected to open around November 2008. Both concourses
will house the same number of gates [10 Gates Total For Each Concourse] but
future plans call for expanding the newly built concourses by year 2020 and
possibly adding a people mover system to the airport. Along with the openings of
the new concourses will be more shops, restaurants and food choices for
travelers pre and post security. The airport has already added Chili's and
Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs to the list of concessionaires and are expected to add
Quiznos Sub also.
Virgin America lists Jacksonville as one of 30 cities it might serve in the next
five years.
The airport authority is currently trying to add non-stop flights to Phoenix and
San Juan with an eye on establishing charter service to Europe.
Future plans also include connecting the airport with the onsite Clarion Hotel
via a moving walkway.
Facilities and aircraft
Jacksonville International Airport covers an area of 7,911 acres (3,201 ha)
which contains two concrete paved runways: 7/25 measuring 10,000 x 150 ft.
(3,048 x 46 m) and 13/31 measuring 7,701 x 150 ft. (2,347 x 46 m).
The airport's two runways are laid out in "V" configuration (with the bottom tip
of the "V" pointing West). A long-range plan exists to build two additional
runways, each paralleling one of the existing runways. A new runway alongside
the existing southern runway will be built first, however, no date has been set
yet for implementing the runway expansion plan (the expectation is that
construction of the third runway would take place around 2015).
For the 12-month period ending July 30, 2006, the airport had 121,279 aircraft
operations, an average of 332 per day: 48% scheduled commercial, 30% air taxi,
17% general aviation, and 5% military. There are 47 aircraft based at this
airport: 13% single-engine, 15% multi-engine, 28% jet and 45% military.
Airlines and destinations
Jacksonville International Airport's terminal has 3 concourses.
Concourse A
* Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
o Delta Connection operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines (Cincinnati/Northern
Kentucky)
o Delta Connection operated by Comair (Boston, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky, New
York-LaGuardia)
* Northwest Airlines (Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul)
o Northwest Airlink operated by Pinnacle Airlines (Memphis)
Concourse B
* AirTran Airways (Atlanta)
* ExpressJet Airlines (Austin, Kansas City, New Orleans, Raleigh/Durham [ends
april 1])
* Frontier Airlines (Denver) [seasonal]
* JetBlue Airways (Boston, New York-JFK)
* United Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare)
o United Express operated by GoJet Airlines (Washington-Dulles)
o United Express operated by Mesa Airlines (Washington-Dulles)
* US Airways (Charlotte, Philadelphia, Washington-Reagan)
o US Airways Express operated by Republic Airlines (Washington-Reagan)
o US Airways Express operated by Republic Airlines (Philadelphia)
Concourse C
* American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth)
o AmericanConnection operated by Trans States Airlines (St. Louis)
o American Eagle (Chicago-O'Hare, Miami, Raleigh/Durham)
o American Eagle operated by Executive Air (Miami)
* Continental Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental, Newark)
o Continental Express operated by Chautauqua Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental)
o Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines (Cleveland,
Houston-Intercontinental, Newark)
o Continental Connection operated by Gulfstream International Airlines (Tampa)
* Southwest Airlines (Baltimore/Washington, Birmingham (AL), Fort Lauderdale,
Houston-Hobby, Indianapolis, Las Vegas [begins May 10], Nashville, Norfolk,
Philadelphia, Tampa)
Trivia
* Delta Air Lines is the only scheduled airline to provide service to
Jacksonville International Airport on widebody aircraft. Delta widebody aircraft
(mostly the Boeing 767-300, occasionally the Boeing 767-400ER) are
regularly-scheduled on the route to/from Jacksonville International Airport
to/from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
* Virgin Atlantic Airways became the first airline to operate the Boeing 747-400
into the airport when Virgin flight 75 from Manchester Airport to Orlando
International Airport was diverted on July 31, 2007.
* An LTU International Airways flight from Dusseldorf, Germany to Miami, Florida
was also the first airline to operate the Airbus A330-300 into Jacksonville
International Airport for an emergency landing due to right engine failure on
October 8, 2007. All 239 passengers onboard the aircraft were processed through
a rarely used US Customs and Immigration facility located under Concourse C
before officially entering the United States.
* What is now the Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, located on the grounds of
JIA, originally opened as the Jacksonville Airport Hilton Hotel & Towers.
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