Jacksonville International Airport (IATA: JAX, ICAO: KJAX, FAA LID: JAX) is a public airport located

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.
Construction of the airport started in 1965, in order for the city to accommodate a more cosmopolitan populace which was introduced kenny chesney tour with the sizable military base in the region. Jacksonville International was finally opened late 1968, replacing the antiquated Imeson Airport.
Initially the airport kenny chesney tour was slow to expand, only serving two million passengers a year in the early eighties. kenny chesney tour 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 kenny chesney tour 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 kenny chesney tour was completed in 2004-2005. In 2006, nearly six miilion passengers were processed.
kenny chesney tour 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 kenny chesney tour the existing southern runway will be built first, however, no date has been set yet for implementing the runway expansion plan. Jacksonville International Airport's terminal has 3 large concourses.
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