Joplin Regional Airport (IATA: JLN, ICAO: KJLN, FAA LID: JLN) is located four miles (6.4 km) north of Joplin, in Jasper County, Missouri, United States.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2025–2029 categorized it as a non-hub primary commercial service facility.
Frontier Airlines: 1967-1984 to Kansas City, Fayetteville, AR, Fort Smith, Springfield, MO and Little Rock.
Air Midwest (own branding): 1982-1986 and again 1989-1991 to Kansas City, Tulsa, Fayetteville, and Little Rock.
Air Midwest also operated a series of major airline Codeshare agreements as noted below.
American Eagle first began service with 64-passenger ATR-72 prop aircraft then upgraded with Regional Jets in 2012.
All American Eagle service ended due to a significant drop in traffic caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
On March 10, 2022, the current provider, SkyWest Airlines dba United Express, filed to withdraw service to Joplin and 28 other cities served under the EAS program, citing a shortage of pilots.
[1] For the year ending December 31, 2022 the airport had 17,868 aircraft operations, an average of 49 per day: 86% general aviation, 13% air taxi, 1% military, and less than 1% airline.
At that time, there were 128 aircraft based at this airport: 105 single-engine, 10 multi-engine, 8 jets, 2 helicopter and 3 ultralights.