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Jackson–Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport

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Jackson-Evers International Airport (IATA: JAN, ICAO: KJAN) is an airport located just to the east of Jackson, Mississippi, across the Pearl River in Rankin County, servicing commercial, private, and military aviation. It is named after Medgar Evers, the former Mississippi Field Secretary for the NAACP. It is administered by the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority (JMAA), which also oversees aviation activity at Hawkins Field in northwest Jackson.

History

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Jackson-Evers International Airport in July 2005. View from the West Concourse looking east across the tarmac. The plane in the foreground is a Canadair Regional Jet operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines, soon to depart for Washington-Reagan National Airport. Behind it is one of Delta Air Lines' numerous McDonnell-Douglas MD-88s, about to depart for Atlanta.

The land that is now Jackson-Evers International Airport was first dedicated in 1963 as a new commercial and military air facility to replace Hawkins Field, which had served as Jackson's first airport and been operating since 1928. Delta Air Lines's inaugural flight, from Dallas-Love Field, landed at Hawkins Field in 1929. The new 1963 facility was named Allen C. Thompson Field, which remains the name for the land on which the airport is built. The airport was designated "Jackson Municipal Airport."

In the early 1990s, the airport's name was changed to "Jackson International Airport," to reflect the fact that it has the facilities to serve international flights, even though the airport does not currently do so. The airport does contain an office for U.S. Customs to service international arrivals and has established a Foreign Trade Zone.

Recent improvements to the facilities include a new covered garage for long-term parking. In 1997 Southwest Airlines began service to Jackson from Chicago, Baltimore, Houston, and Orlando. Currently, the airport services approximately 247 aircraft per day. Following a decision made by the Jackson City Council in December 2004, on 22 January 2005 the airport name was officially changed to Jackson-Evers International Airport.

Concourses, airlines and destinations

East Concourse

The East Concourse contains Gates 1, 2, 3, and 4.

West Concourse

The West Concourse contains gates 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19.


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An Embraer Regional Jet operated by Continental Express taxiing to the runway at Jackson International Airport for an early-morning departure to Houston-Bush Intercontinental.


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