Facilities & Airline Service Present and Past
Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport covers 989 acres (400 ha) and has two runways.
The airport has recently undergone major renovations which include a new 110,000 sq ft (10,000 m2) terminal building with room for expansion, which was completed in 2009 and designed by CSHQA and The Abell Architectural Group Inc. The new terminal hosts an observation deck on the second floor, as well as a restaurant for screened and unscreened passengers. Also, second-story loading bridges have been put in place for easier loading and unloading of passengers. Now that the new terminal is complete, there is a main concourse, and two open air concourses. Coincided with the construction of a new terminal, a new control tower was built as well. The new $3.6 million, 100-foot-tall (30 m) control tower uses a state-of-the-art geothermal system to heat and cool the building. The tower was completed in late 2008.
Three fixed-based operators (FBOs) currently provide general aviation services on the field: Medford Air Service, Jet Center MFR, and Million Air (which recently completed its new three-story corporate terminal).
As for airline service, Horizon Air operates Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft on all of their flights serving Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport, with nonstop service to Portland (PDX), Seattle/Tacoma (SEA) and Los Angeles (LAX). Nonstop service to Denver (DEN) and San Francisco (SFO), flown by SkyWest Airlines operating as United Express, utilizes Canadair CRJ-700 regional jets. United Express also operates Canadair CRJ-200 regional jets nonstop to Denver as well as Embraer EMB-120 "Brasilia" turboprops nonstop to San Francisco. Delta Connection, operated by SkyWest, flies nonstop service to Salt Lake City (SLC) with Canadair CRJ-200 regional jets. Allegiant Air flies nonstop to Las Vegas (LAS) and Los Angeles (LAX), and also seasonally to Phoenix-Mesa (AZA), with the only "mainline" jet aircraft type currently serving Medford, being the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series jetliner.
Historically, Medford was served by United Airlines flying Boeing 727-100, 727-200 and 737-200 jetliners, by Hughes Airwest (formerly known as Air West) operating Douglas DC-9-10 and DC-9-30 jets, by Pacific Express which flew British Aircraft Corp. BAC One-Eleven jet aircraft and by Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) which operated British Aerospace BAe 146-200 jets. The PSA service was then taken over by USAir (which currently operates as US Airways) following the acquisition of PSA by USAir. USAir subsequently ceased service to Medford although US Airways Express did serve Medford in later years with regional jet flights. The predecessor of Air West and Hughes Airwest, West Coast Airlines, served the airport in the 1960s with Douglas DC-9 jet service as well as with Fairchild F-27 propjet flights. West Coast merged with Pacific Air Lines and Bonanza Air Lines to form Air West.
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