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The first airliners at Grand Junction were Monarch داگلاس دی‌سی-۳s in 1946-47; successor Frontier Airlines (1950-1986) served Grand Junction until the 1980s. یونایتد ایرلاینز داگلاس دی‌سی-۴ propliners started flying LAX-LAS-GJT-DEN in 1947 and United continued that route until 1977. Nonstops from Grand Junction never reached beyond Denver, Salt Lake and Las Vegas until United started Saturday-only nonstops during the winter ski season to Los Angeles in 1969-70 and to Chicago in 1970-71 (GJT's runway had been extended from 5400 to 7500 feet around 1965). Until the 1980s GJT was the only Colorado airport west of Denver to see airline jets. In 1974-75 United داگلاس دی‌سی-۸ jets flew nonstop to Los Angeles and Chicago while بوئینگ ۷۲۷s flew to San Francisco; in 1976-77 United tried nonstop 727s to Detroit and Milwaukee and in 1978-79 to Omaha and Kansas City. United also operated the بوئینگ ۷۲۷ from the airport. In winter 1980-81 Grand Junction finally got a weekday United بوئینگ ۷۳۷ nonstop to LAX; however, United then ceased all mainline service to GJT a few months later.

The first jets at Grand Junction were Frontier بوئینگ ۷۲۷s flying DEN-GJT-SLC and back starting Oct-Nov 1966. Some Frontier 727 flights also provided direct service to and from Kansas City and St. Louis. بوئینگ ۷۳۷s later replaced Frontier's 727s, and their Convair 580 turboprops remained into the 1980s. In 1975-76 Frontier started weekend only 737 jets to DFW during the ski season.

Other jet airlines at Grand Junction included کنتیننتال ایرلاینز to Denver during the 1980s and early 1990s flying بوئینگ ۷۲۷s, بوئینگ ۷۲۷s and بوئینگ ۷۳۷s as well as مک‌دانل داگلاس دی‌سی-۹s and مک‌دانل داگلاس دی‌سی-۹s during those years when Continental operated a hub at Denver, Western Airlines بوئینگ ۷۳۷s nonstop to SFO in winter of 1975-76, and America West Airlines بوئینگ ۷۳۷s nonstop to Phoenix in the 1980s. In the mid 1990s, Air 21 flew nonstop to Colorado Springs and Las Vegas and direct to Los Angeles with فوکر ۲۸ twin jets.

The only mainline jets at Grand Junction now are الیجنت ایر مک‌دانل داگلاس ام‌دی-۸۰s and Airbus A319s Thursdays and Sundays nonstop to Las Vegas and Los Angeles; all other airlines use regional jets.