Jackson Jambalaya

Is it possible for the city of Jackson to sell the airport and use the funds to fix their horrid infrastructure? If so, is there actually any chance the City would use the funds for infrastructure, or would it go towards another 'study'.

If the city isn't careful, stokes is going to cost them the airport. I'd welcome it.

How much do they waste on minority set aside contracts?

This is as much about greed as racism.A board appointed by the governor won't bring in more airlines or run the airport more efficiently.

Someone is looking at the development possibilities around the airport. The JMAA property east of the airport is primed and readied for development. There are vultures waiting to strip Jackson bare.

If the Jackson airport is regional and should be ruled by the state, let's make that true of all regional development. Create a regional governing body, so we all benefit from Nissan, Trustmark Park, Renaissance, and The Outlets of Mississippi. After all, those have been partially funded using all our dollars, not just the residents of those cities/counties.

Any takers?

Southwest is now flying to the Caribbean. (AirTran's old routes) There's only so many planes and so many routes-look at Memphis' Southwest service. Look familiar?

Once USAirways (now American) solidified the route from JAN-DCA, there was no real reason to keep SWA here for their JAN-BWI route. The politicians of both parties will fight like there's no tomorrow to keep JAN-DCA.

Its a power grab by the state. Very Liberal of all the people here who want to give the state more power. It's Jackson's airport and they should retain local control.

Time to update the list, Kingfish! I almost linked to this, but the newest scandals aren't here.

Came into JAN last night at 6:30 PM. Collected my bags and went to get in the escalator to go upstairs and check on an upcoming flight the next week. West escalator was not working and was blocked off. Went to the East side and that escalator was not working and blocked for repairs. What is this??? A third world country that JMAA will not fix the infrastructure!!
Someone needs to address the problems with this 60 year old “International Airport “. We are in the 21st Century now.

Flew into JMAA Third World Airport on May 13th at 7:00pm. Collected my baggage with a large group of traveling friends of mine and went to the escalators to go upstairs to check my Delta booking for later in the week. NOT ONE WORKING ESCALATOR WAS WORKING. All of them had yellow tape around them and signage stating OUT OF ORDER. Isn’t it time that the State of Mississippi step in and take over the Jackson Airport and correct the horrendous operations?? It is a shame that out of state visitors have to deal with this infrastructure.