Wednesday, May 08, 2019

Joplin Regional Airport preparing for Chicago flight service

(From the City of Joplin)

Starting June 6, 2019 American Airlines begins flight service to Chicago from Joplin Regional Airport! Since the announcement at the beginning of this year, airport officials and staff have been working to upgrade facilities and equipment for the additional flights.

“Ticket sales have taken off since they became available,” said Steve Stockam, Manager of the Airport. “We’re thrilled to see this activity, and we’ve been busy expanding areas of the terminal to accommodate the new flights and addressing some of the staffing changes.”

With additional flights, American Airlines requested more office area within the terminal, so airport staff’s offices were relocated to accommodate the additional lease requirements.

Seating in the holding area was rearranged to provide passengers waiting to board with a more accommodating floorplan. Other changes were made for the Chicago service with new gate check equipment and upgrades for the second passenger boarding bridge.








With the additional flights, the safety and security responsibilities under the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will require police and airport staff to be at their post for ten hour each day.

“We’ve been working closely with our Police Department to develop an efficient and responsible plan for this requirement,” said Stockam. “JPD will continue to help us with these needs initially, while I work with Chief (Matt) Stewart in creating our own Airport Police Unit. These Airport officers will have police training along with specific training for airport security. By doing this, the Airport will be staffed, and it won’t take officers from the Police Department. This will take a little time, so we appreciate the JPD’s assistance as we make this transition.”

Stockam noted that the past few months have been non-stop activity, and he expects this pace to continue.

“The Chicago service is something our business community has been asking about for a number of years,” he said. “We’re very pleased to have it and we appreciate the number of supporters we’ve seen these past few months. We also are seeing a good number of leisure travelers already booking their flights, so that is exciting as well.”








Stockam announced the flight schedule during a recent City Council meeting, noting that American has added a fourth flight to Dallas/Fort Worth for the summer, as they did last year.

The schedule includes CHICAGO flights departing from Joplin at 5:44 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. daily. Flights to Joplin arrive at 1:41 p.m. and 10:03 p.m.

The DALLAS/FORT WORTH schedule includes departures from Joplin at 6:10 a.m., 12:17 p.m. (except Tuesday, Wednesday & Saturday), 4:19 p.m. and 6:18 p.m. Flights arriving to Joplin include 11:47 a.m. (except Tuesday, Wednesday & Saturday), 3:54 p.m., 5:41 p.m. and 11:44 p.m.

For more information about the Joplin Regional Airport and its flight service, go to www.jlnairport.com . To book a flight, go to www.AA.com .

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

How much is round trip airfare from Joplin to Chicago?

Anonymous said...

What waste of money. Joplin doesn't need this.

Concerned citizen said...

847pm. CroMagnon thought that has kept Joplin as a pretentious nothing in many ways

Anonymous said...

I frequently fly from Springfield or NW Arkansas to Chicago to make connections. It would be very convenient to leave from Joplin instead. However, I have serious doubts about the ability to make my connections based on my friends' experience using Joplin-DFW flights. All too often, flights are either late or canceled altogether, resulting in a frantic drive to SGF or XNA for a different flight. No thank you.

Anonymous said...

Every small airport has same problem but one has to start somewhere...why not let others try service and you continue driving to get a plane...

Anonymous said...

Once upon a time Joplin had pretty decent air service. There was Ozark offering service to St. Louis and Chicago. Frontier offered service to Kansas City, Dallas and Denver. Royal offered service to Dallas and Northwest offered service to Memphis.

Anonymous said...

>>>Once upon a time Joplin had pretty decent air service. There was Ozark offering service to St. Louis and Chicago. Frontier offered service to Kansas City, Dallas and Denver. Royal offered service to Dallas and Northwest offered service to Memphis.<<<

You mean before the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978?

Anonymous said...

Airlines are deregulated and have the freedum to do unto their passengers as they find profitable!

Anonymous said...

We need the government to step in and get things back on track.