Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers (JAN) Airport Car Service

Black Car Service to and from Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International (JAN) Airport

Landing at Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International (JAN) Airport puts you about six miles east of downtown Jackson, and the ride waiting at the curb shapes how the rest of the day goes. We run chauffeured Mississippi airport car service for arrivals, departures, and connecting travel across the capital region, matching the vehicle to your party size and your luggage load. Executives heading for the Capitol district, families driving out to Ridgeland, and wedding parties bound for the Jackson Convention Complex all book the same three things: a clean car, a driver watching the flight board, and a rate agreed before anyone climbs in.

Why Travelers Book a Private Ride at JAN Instead of Queuing

JAN is a compact airport, which is a genuine advantage for arriving passengers. Bags reach the carousel quickly and the walk from gate to curb is short. The catch is that ground transportation at a small hub thins out fast, especially late at night when the last bank of flights lands and the taxi stand empties. A reservation removes that variable completely. The car is assigned hours before wheels down, the driver is already on airport property, and the fare was settled at booking.

Union Limousine has built this service around the way people actually travel through central Mississippi, where a single trip often chains an airport pickup, a hotel drop, a plant tour, and a dinner reservation into one working day. The details that make that hold together are unglamorous and they matter:

• Live flight tracking on every arrival, so delays adjust the pickup without a phone call or a waiting charge
• Flat quoted rates with tolls, parking, and airport fees included, never surge multiplied
• Licensed and screened chauffeurs who drive the Jackson metro daily and know its construction detours
• Meet and greet at baggage claim with a name sign, or curbside pickup for travelers moving light
• Late night and predawn coverage for the earliest departures and the last inbound flights
• Commercial insurance, current inspections, and clean interiors verified before each dispatch

Our Fleet for JAN Airport Transfers

Party size and luggage volume decide the vehicle, and getting that call right is most of the job. A couple with two suitcases and a fourteen person sales team arriving on three separate flights need very different answers. Our car service fleet covers both ends of that range and everything between.

Sedans for Up to 3 Passengers

The workhorse of airport travel. A sedan carries three passengers with luggage in the trunk and suits the solo business traveler, a couple on a weekend visit, or an attorney heading downtown from an early Atlanta connection. Quiet cabin, phone charging, and bottled water come standard. For JAN arrivals with checked bags, two large cases and two carry ons fit comfortably; a third checked bag is the point where an SUV becomes the better call.

SUVs for Up to 6 Passengers

Six passengers, generous cargo space, and a higher ride height that families and taller travelers appreciate. This is the standard pick for golf trips heading toward Annandale, families flying in for a graduation at Millsaps or Belhaven, and small executive groups who want everyone in one vehicle. The SUV also handles a couple traveling with a full set of luggage plus a stroller and child seat without any luggage juggling.

Stretch Limousines for Up to 20 Passengers

Twenty passengers, a proper occasion vehicle with lounge seating, climate zones, and lighting that reads as celebration the moment the door opens. Around JAN, stretch bookings cluster around weddings at the reservoir, milestone birthdays downtown, and prom season across Rankin and Madison County. Airport arrivals for bridal parties are common, with the group collected together and delivered straight to the venue or hotel block.

Sprinter Vans for Up to 14 Passengers

Fourteen passengers with standing headroom and a dedicated luggage area, which is why the Sprinter has become the default corporate group vehicle at JAN. Teams flying in for a plant visit, a state agency delegation, or a church group returning from a mission trip all fit in one van with their bags. Executive configurations add power outlets, tables, and reclining seats for crews working between the terminal and the meeting.

Party Buses for Up to 30 Passengers

Thirty passengers in an open floor plan with perimeter seating, sound system, and lighting. This vehicle earns its keep on tailgate runs, bachelor and bachelorette weekends, and group nights out through the Fondren and Belhaven districts. Groups landing at JAN for a weekend event frequently start the trip right at the airport curb, which spares everyone a hotel shuttle and a scramble for parking downtown.

Mini Charter Buses for Up to 35 Passengers

Thirty five passengers in forward facing coach seating with under floor luggage bays. The mini coach solves the awkward middle, too many people for a Sprinter and too few to justify a full motor coach. Athletic teams, conference breakout groups, and school trips use it constantly. It also handles multi stop itineraries well, running the airport to hotel leg in the morning and the hotel to venue shuttle in the evening.

Full Size Charter Buses for Up to 56 Passengers

Fifty six passengers, restroom equipped, with deep luggage bays and reclining seats for longer hauls. Convention groups arriving at JAN, corporate meetings moving out to Vicksburg or Natchez, and university travel all run on this vehicle. For large arrivals spread across several flights, we commonly stage a coach on airport property and load in waves so no one sits at baggage claim waiting on the last plane.

Where We Drive From JAN Airport

The terminal sits in Rankin County, which makes Flowood, Pearl, Richland, and Brandon the closest drops, most of them inside fifteen minutes. From there the map opens across Hinds and Madison County and out to the rest of the state. Our broader car service in Mississippi network means an arrival at JAN can continue to the Gulf Coast, the Delta, or the university towns without a vehicle change.

• Downtown Jackson: the Capitol complex, Thalia Mara Hall, the Two Mississippi Museums, and the Jackson Convention Complex
• Flowood and Pearl: Dogwood Festival Market, Trustmark Park, and the Lakeland Drive hotel and medical corridor
• Ridgeland and Madison: Renaissance at Colony Park, Ross Barnett Reservoir venues, and the Natchez Trace Parkway access points
• Clinton, Byram, Raymond, and Canton: Mississippi College, the Nissan manufacturing campus, and the historic Canton square
• Statewide runs: Vicksburg National Military Park, Oxford, Starkville, Hattiesburg, Meridian, and the Biloxi and Gulfport coast
• Airport to airport transfers connecting JAN with Hawkins Field, Gulfport Biloxi, Memphis, and New Orleans when a schedule requires it

Travelers relocating to the area or arriving on state business can also review Mississippi state government resources before they land, which saves a stop on the way in from the airport.

Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International (JAN) Airport: A Traveler's Guide

• Airport Name: Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International (JAN) Airport
• Airport Code: JAN
• Address: 100 International Dr, Jackson, MS 39208, United States
• Phone: +1 601-939-5631
• Official Website: jmaa.com

A Name That Carries Weight in Mississippi

Ground broke on the current airfield in 1959 and the facility opened in the early 1960s as Allen C. Thompson Field. In 2004 the city renamed it for Medgar Wiley Evers, the civil rights leader and Mississippi field secretary who was assassinated at his Jackson home in 1963. The airport is owned by the City of Jackson and operated by the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority, which also runs Hawkins Field on the northwest side of the city. It remains a joint civil and military field, home to the 172nd Airlift Wing of the Air National Guard.

Airlines and the Destinations They Reach

Four carriers serve JAN: Delta Air Lines, which has the longest tenure at the field, along with American Airlines, United Airlines, and Southwest Airlines. Between them they operate roughly nine nonstop domestic destinations, and each one feeds a major connecting hub. Delta runs a heavy Atlanta schedule that opens onto flights across five continents. American connects through Dallas Fort Worth, Charlotte, Miami, and Washington Reagan National. United serves the Houston hubs at George Bush Intercontinental and William P. Hobby, and Southwest added Nashville service that has proven popular with leisure travelers. Every published route is domestic, so international itineraries clear customs at the connecting hub rather than in Jackson.

Terminal Layout and Passenger Volume

JAN operates from a single main terminal with two concourses, which keeps the walk from security to the farthest gate short by any standard. Ticketing and airline counters sit on the upper level, baggage claim and rental car counters on the lower level. Restaurants, a bar, and free Wi Fi cover the wait, and the compact footprint means a passenger who clears security thirty minutes before boarding is rarely in trouble. The airport handled 616,695 enplanements in calendar year 2024, which places it in the small hub category under federal air travel statistics and makes it comfortably the busiest commercial airport in Mississippi. Counting both directions, traffic runs well past a million passengers a year, and the 2025 figures showed 707,000 passengers through the first seven months alone.

Parking at JAN

Parking is straightforward and priced sensibly compared with larger regional airports, which is part of why so many central Mississippi travelers drive in rather than connecting from elsewhere. Published daily rates run as follows:

• Garage parking at 19 dollars per day, directly attached to the terminal
• Surface lot at 17 dollars per day, a short walk from the doors
• Economy and remote lot at 13 dollars per day, with frequent nonstop shuttle buses
• Hourly parking at 5 dollars per hour, with the first ten minutes free in the lots
• Cell phone lot free of charge for anyone waiting on an arriving passenger

For a trip longer than three or four days, the parking bill alone usually approaches what a round trip chauffeured transfer costs, before counting fuel or the walk to a cold car at midnight.

Pick Up and Drop Off Guidance

Departures use the upper level curb, arrivals the lower level. Curbside dwell time is actively enforced, so the loading zone works for a quick bag handoff and nothing longer. Drivers waiting on a passenger should stage in the free cell phone lot and move to the curb only after the traveler has bags in hand. Our chauffeurs run this pattern by default. On a meet and greet booking the driver parks, walks in, and waits at baggage claim with a name sign; on a curbside booking the driver holds in the cell phone lot until you text, then pulls forward. Either way nobody circles the terminal loop.

Ground Transportation Options at JAN

Rental car counters sit in the lower level lobby with the lots a short walk away. Taxis queue outside baggage claim, though the line is thin outside peak arrival banks. Rideshare pickup is signed at a designated zone, with availability that swings hard by hour and by weather, and late night arrivals regularly wait. Hotel shuttles serve some of the Lakeland Drive and Flowood properties on request. Pre booked chauffeured service is the fourth option, and the only one where a specific vehicle is committed to you before the plane lands.

Tips for Arriving and Departing Passengers

• Arrive two hours before a domestic departure; JAN moves quickly, but the security checkpoint has limited lanes at peak
• The first departure bank leaves very early, so predawn pickups from the metro are routine and worth reserving the night before
• Confirm your terminal side before departure day, since all commercial flights use the single main terminal and general aviation traffic goes to Hawkins Field
• Summer thunderstorms across the Southeast delay connections at Atlanta and Dallas more often than they delay Jackson itself
• Check your bag tag city code carefully; JAN is easy to confuse with Jackson Hole in Wyoming, which uses JAC
• Interstate 20 westbound into downtown slows during weekday afternoons, so build in fifteen extra minutes for a meeting arrival

Why a Pre Booked Chauffeur Beats a Taxi or Rideshare Here

At a small hub the case for reserving ahead is stronger than it is at a major airport, precisely because the supply of walk up cars is thin. A rideshare app at 11 p.m. on a Tuesday in Jackson may show a fifteen minute wait, or it may show nothing at all. Taxi availability follows the arrival banks and empties between them. Neither guarantees a vehicle large enough for four travelers with checked luggage, and neither guarantees the price you saw when you opened the app.

A reservation inverts all of that. The vehicle class is confirmed, the rate is fixed, the driver has your flight number, and the car is on airport property before you reach baggage claim. For business travelers the difference shows up as a predictable schedule and a clean expense line. For families it shows up as installed child seats and enough cargo room. For groups it is simply the only workable answer, since no rideshare fleet in central Mississippi is producing a coach for thirty five people on demand.

Booking Your JAN Airport Transfer

Reserving takes a few minutes. Send the flight number, the date, the number of passengers, the bag count, and the destination address, and a flat quote comes back with the vehicle class named. Union Limousine confirms in writing, sends the chauffeur details ahead of pickup, and monitors the flight from the moment it pushes back at the origin airport. Changes are handled by phone or message up to the pickup window, and round trip bookings lock the return leg at the same time so the outbound morning takes no extra thought.

Reserve Your JAN Airport Car Service Today

Your flight lands whether or not the ground transportation is sorted, and the difference between a smooth arrival and a frustrating one is usually decided days earlier at the booking stage. Whatever brings you through Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International, a company site visit in Canton, a wedding at the reservoir, a family reunion in Clinton, or a connection onward to the coast, the vehicle should already be waiting when the carousel starts turning.

Call or book online to lock your rate and your vehicle. Union Limousine covers JAN arrivals and departures around the clock, seven days a week, with sedans through fifty six passenger coaches and chauffeurs who know every approach to this airport. Tell us the flight number and consider the ground half of the trip finished.