Juneau's only paved runway closes Saturday night for repairs, medflight plan in place

Juneau's only paved runway will close overnight Saturday for repairs, with a medflight fallback procedure in place for the duration of the work.

Runway 8-26 at Juneau International Airport will go out of service the night of July 11 for localized milling, repaving, and surface grooving at seven locations. An alternative procedure for emergency medical flight operations will be in effect during the closure window, though the specific procedure is not detailed in the agenda documents prepared for the Juneau International Airport Board's July 9 meeting.

Contractor SECON will handle the milling and repaving on the night of July 11, with surface grooving to continue over the next few nights. All work will be completed under continuous escort on a pull-back basis. SECON's fee for the localized repairs is $118,407, recorded as an encumbered amount in the airport capital reserve tracking sheet under the Ramp Improvement and RON 121/135 project. The reserve's current available balance is $109,876.

The repairs are part of the close-out phase of the larger Part 121/135 Apron and RON Parking Apron rehabilitation project. Guardian Flight, which executed a lease for a new hangar on Lot 5A of Block P in January 2026, operates at the airport and would be subject to the alternative medical flight procedure during the closure.