Jackson–Evers International Airport
| Jackson–Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Jackson | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Jackson, Mississippi | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 346 ft / 105 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°18′40″N 090°04′33″W / 32.31111°N 90.07583°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www.jmaa.com | ||||||||||||||
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| Aircraft operations | 50,076 |
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| Based aircraft | 26 |
Jackson–Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport (IATA: JAN, ICAO: KJAN, FAA LID: JAN) is a city-owned civil-military airport in Jackson, Mississippi, six miles (9 km) east of Jackson, across the Pearl River.
It serves commercial, private, and military aviation. It is named after Medgar Evers, the former Mississippi Field Secretary for the NAACP, and is administered by the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority (JMAA), which also oversees aviation activity at Hawkins Field (HKS) in northwest Jackson.
In March 2011, the Jackson–Evers International Airport was ranked the 8th-best airport in a worldwide consumer survey conducted by Airports Council International (ACI). It was the only airport in the United States to be ranked in the top ten.
What is now Jackson–Evers International Airport opened in 1963, a new airport to replace Hawkins Field, Jackson's airport since 1928. Delta Air Lines's first flight, from Dallas Love Field, landed at Hawkins Field in 1929. The new airport was named Allen C. Thompson Field (after the Mayor of Jackson at the time, who was instrumental in obtaining the land for the airfield), which remains the name for the land on which the airport is built. The airport was "Jackson Municipal Airport".
Following a decision by the Jackson City Council in December 2004, on January 22, 2005 the airport name was changed to Jackson–Evers International Airport.
In 1973, Delta Boeing 727s flew nonstop to Atlanta, Birmingham, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Monroe (LA), Montgomery (AL), Memphis, Meridian (MS), New Orleans, and Shreveport, which continued for some time afterwards During the mid-1980s Delta 727s and DC-9s flew nonstop to Atlanta, Dallas/Ft Worth, Memphis, Mobile, Monroe, and Shreveport. In October 1991 Delta had nonstop 727s, DC-9s and MD-88s to its hubs in Atlanta, Cincinnati, and Dallas/Ft Worth, in addition to Baton Rouge, Birmingham, Monroe, and Shreveport. In the 1990s and 2000s Delta reduced its flights; by 2013 Delta flew only to Atlanta from Jackson.
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