Rogue Valley International–Medford Airport


Rogue Valley International–Medford Airport is a public-use airport three miles north of downtown Medford, in Jackson County, Oregon. Owned and operated by Jackson County's Aviation Authority, the airport serves southwest Oregon. Originally named Medford–Jackson County Airport, it was renamed to Rogue Valley International–Medford Airport after it became an international airport in 1994.
In December of 2018, the airport celebrated its 1 million+ annual passenger milestone. In doing so Medford joined both PDX and EUG as the only Oregon airports to have surpassed 1 million passengers in a year. By virtue of annual commercial passengers, Rogue Valley International–Medford Airport is the third busiest airport in Oregon with 1,010,920 passenger enplanements and deplanements in 2018. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport.

Facilities

The airport covers 905 acres at an elevation of 1,335 feet. Its runway, 14/32, is 8,800 by 150 feet asphalt.
The airport has recently undergone renovations which include a new terminal building with room for expansion, which was completed in 2009 and designed by CSHQA and The Abell Architectural Group Inc. The new terminal has an observation deck on the second floor, a restaurant for screened and unscreened passengers, and second-story loading bridges. Now that the terminal is complete, there is a main concourse, and two open air concourses. A new control tower was completed in late 2008; the $3.6 million, tower uses a state-of-the-art geothermal system to heat and cool the building.
Two fixed-based operators provide general aviation services on the field: Jet Center MFR, and Million Air.
In 2011 the airport had 42,063 aircraft operations, average 115 per day: 62% general aviation, 25% air taxi, 12% airline, and 1% military. 215 aircraft were then based at this airport: 67% single-engine, 14% jet, 10% multi-engine, 4% glider, and 4% helicopter.
The Medford airport continues to post favorable passenger statistics; following monthly gains in 2019 the facility served 1,087,873 arriving and departing passengers.

Airline service present and past

operates Bombardier Q400s on all of their flights at Rogue Valley International–Medford Airport, with nonstops to Portland International Airport and Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. Nonstops to Denver International Airport and San Francisco International Airport, flown by SkyWest Airlines operating as United Express, use Canadair CRJ-700 and ERJ-175 regional jets as well as the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737-900 for select San Francisco and Denver flights. United Express also operates Canadair CRJ-200 regional jets nonstop to Denver. Delta Connection, operated by Compass Airlines, flies nonstop to Salt Lake City International Airport and Seattle–Tacoma International Airport with ERJ-175s. Allegiant Air flies nonstop to Las Vegas and Los Angeles, and seasonally to Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport, using the Airbus A319.
Medford was served by United Airlines Boeing 727-200s and 737-200s, by Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9-10s and DC-9-30s, by Pacific Express BAC One-Elevens, and by Pacific Southwest Airlines BAe 146-200s. The PSA service was continued by USAir after it acquired PSA. USAir later ended service to Medford though US Airways Express did serve Medford later with regional jets. The predecessor of Air West and Hughes Airwest, West Coast Airlines, served the airport in the 1960s with Douglas DC-9s and Fairchild F-27s. West Coast merged with Pacific Air Lines and Bonanza Air Lines to form Air West. In the late 1980s and early 1990s United Express operated as NPA, West Air and Mesa flying British Aerospace Jetstreams directly to both Portland and Seattle

Airlines and destinations

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Statistics

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Accidents and incidents

On January 7, 2008, a US Airways Express jet arriving from Las Vegas struck a coyote, killing the coyote. No passenger injuries occurred, and possibly no passenger noticed the collision.