San Jose Airport passenger trips lose more altitude years after COVID

SAN JOSE — San Jose International Airport has yet to reclaim the level of passenger activity it enjoyed in 2019, the final full year before pandemic-related global impacts made their mark.

The travel hub handled about 891,300 passengers during April, according to information posted by the airport. Those trips represented a 7.8% decline compared with the 966,300 passengers that it accommodated in April 2024.

In a hopeful sign, however, passenger trips at the South Bay airport have increased for two straight months, in March and then in April, an assessment of the airport’s passenger statistics shows.

Trips nosedived to a recent low in February, when the aviation hub handled just 746,200 passengers. That was the weakest month for passenger trips since February 2022…

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