Bay Area airport traffic has suffered. From 2019 to 2024, SFO’s traffic was down more than 10%. OAK’s was down by 21%. And SJC was down by 25%.
Blame the economy. San Jose and Oakland airport officials have attributed the lagging passenger numbers to a decline in business travel after remote meetings became the norm during the pandemic. Before that, top destinations for both of those airports were largely other West Coast cities, which have almost all seen lower passenger numbers at both airports.
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