Jacksonville International Airport

Jacksonville International Airport
IATA: JAX ICAO: KJAX FAA LID: JAX WMO: 72206
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Jacksonville Aviation Authority
Serves	Jacksonville metropolitan area
Location	Jacksonville, Florida
Elevation AMSL	30 ft / 9 m
Coordinates	30°29′39″N 081°41′16″W / 30.49417°N 81.68778°W / 30.49417; -81.68778
Website	flyjacksonville.com
Map
FAA airport diagram JAX Show map of Florida JAX Show map of the US Location of airport in Florida / United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 8/26 10,000 3,048 Concrete 14/32 7,701 2,347 Concrete
Statistics (2015)
Aircraft operations 93,010 Passengers 5,501,889
Sources: FAA, airport website

FAA airport diagram

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.

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; terrain precluded longer runways at Imeson. A new idea at JIA was separating departing and arriving passengers on different sides of the terminal (as can be seen in the photo on this page). This is no longer the case, and the airport (which has greatly expanded since the picture was taken) 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.