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Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport
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3650 Biddle Rd
Medford, OR 97501
(541) 776-7222
Medford, OR 97501
(541) 776-7222
5 reviews for Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport
Yes Virgina, there is an airport in Southern Oregon!
When I was a kid my grandparents moved to Southern Oregon to avoid Regan, and California State income taxes during their golden years. So, as a kid I got shipped up there during the summers. Sometimes it was a road trip with my Dad, other times I flew......
Let me tell you, nothing made the pre-teen Rhubarb C feel more like a movie star than walking on the tarmac at this airport. It totally affirmed my notion that I was the city girl, going to visit my country relatives. I mean, if you had to WALK on the TARMAC, certainly there could be nothing redeeming about the entire state.
As an alleged grown up, I appreciate that getting in and out of smaller airports is often a lot easier than dealing with a monster like SFO or LAX with a billion different terminals.
The new terminal is just recently opened. A restaurant is projected to open "soon." There's already a newsstand. There's also a viewing area on the second floor - you'll be able to see planes take off and land from here. And there are tables and chairs where you can sit and wait between those events - actually you might wait quite a while for a commercial flight to be on the runway - in the afternoon there's mostly just Fed-Ex planes coming and going. As evening approaches the pace will pick up, until the last planes come in around eleven p.m.
what I dislike about the Medford Airport...
I have come through MFD twice now- the first time was in 2005, and there was this cofeeshop there (The Red Baron)- it was a nice place to grab a plate of breakfast & kill the time waiting for my plane.
I came back through in July this year thinking "oh I will skip breakfast, I can fill up at the Airport"- WRONG! The Red Baron had closed in my absence, and I had to make do with junkfood crud from these two vending machines in the waiting area--
and after all that, while changing planes in PDX waiting to get home to SFO, they were forty minutes late (there) in delivering my dinner order!
Someone, please, bring back a coffeeshop to the Medford airport!
Otherwise, no meals for 200 miles either direction!
And also otherwise, so far as security lines, go, MFD is a snap and the TSA folks are Super Friendly- like everyone else in the Rogue Valley.
What Jenn C. says & more. Medford/Jackson County Airport is now considered an "International" airport. It is a quick in & out, parking is terrific & cheap; only one gift shop with your usual assortment of touristy do-dads & some local artistry. No restaurant (so I minused a star).
This place is under construction right now as they are in the middle of building a completely new terminal and leveling the old one. I love how I can show up 45 minutes before a flight and not have to worry since it's a small town airport. The new terminal is expected to be finished in Dec 2008. http://www.airport-tec...