Jacksonville International Airport

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Jacksonville International Airport
IATA: JAX - ICAO: KJAX
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Jacksonville Aviation Authority
Serves Jacksonville, Florida
Elevation AMSL 30 ft (9.1 m)
Coordinates 30°29′38.6″N, 81°41′16.3″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
7/25 10,000 3,048 Concrete
13/31 7,701 2,347 Concrete

Jacksonville International Airport (IATA: JAX, ICAO: KJAX) is a public airport located 9 miles (14 km) north of the downtown of Jacksonville in Duval County, Florida, United States.

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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 [1]. 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 (as can be seen in the photo on this page). This is no longer the case though and the airport (which has been greatly expanded since the picture was taken) 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 rebuliding 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 2006, 5,946,188 passengers were processed.[2]

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 in 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.

Jacksonville International Airport covers 7,911 acres and has two runways:

  • Runway 7/25: 10,000 x 150 ft. (3,048 x 46 m), Surface: Concrete
  • Runway 13/31: 7,701 x 150 ft. (2,347 x 46 m), Surface: Concrete

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).

Jacksonville International Airport's terminal has 3 concourses.

Concourse location to be determined:

  • ExpressJet Airlines (Austin [begins April 30], Kansas City [begins April 30], New Orleans [begins April 30], Raleigh [begins May 7])
  • Frontier Airlines (Denver [begins June 15th])


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