Facilities and Aircraft
Jackson Hole Airport covers an area of 533 acres (216 ha), which contains one runway designated 1/19 with a 6,300 x 150 ft (1,920 x 46 m) asphalt pavement. For the 12-month period ending December 1, 2009, the airport had 30,865 aircraft operations, an average of 85 per day: 52% general aviation, 25% air taxi, 22% scheduled commercial and <1% military. There are 52 aircraft based at this airport: 69% single-engine, 6% multi-engine, 21% jet, 3% glider, and 1% cattle cargo. Jackson Hole Airport is very noise sensitive being in a national park, and has a ban on aircraft with stage-II engines which are older, noisier jet engines. Few aircraft for charter are based at Jackson Hole Airport. New Flight Charters has a Cessna T206 based there and several other charter aircraft nearby for departures from Jackson Hole Airport.
The largest aircraft to operate to the airport on a regular basis is a Boeing 757-200. American Airlines operates this aircraft daily on a seasonal basis to Dallas and Chicago; United Airlines operates it several times daily to Denver during the summer and also initiated new B757 service several times a week nonstop to Houston on June 8, 2012. Delta Air Lines also provides B757 service of various frequencies to its hubs at Salt Lake City and Atlanta. Other jetliner types operated into Jackson Hole include the Airbus A319 and A320 as well as the Canadair CRJ-700 regional jet.
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