SAN JOSE — San Jose International Airport reported passenger trip results for August that capped off the South Bay aviation hub’s most feeble summer travel season in years.
The South Bay air travel complex reports that it handled roughly 974,000 passengers during August, which was down 8.7% from the same month in 2024.
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San Jose Airport’s passenger travel totals for the three-month summer travel season represented the weakest stretch over that time period since the summer of 2021, this news organization’s analysis of the airport’s monthly reports shows.
During June, July and August, San Jose Airport averaged about 992,600 passenger trips a month.
This summer’s passenger activity was the lowest level for those three months since the summer of 2021, when the airport averaged 776,900 passengers, as San Jose began to recover from the travel nosedive in the wake of the coronavirus.
The airport handled an average of 1.1 million passengers during the summer of 2022, 1.12 million passengers in the summer of 2023, and 1.09 million passengers during the summer of 2024. In all instances, the figures pertained to June, July and August passenger activity.
Over the 12 months that ended in August, San Jose Airport accommodated about 11.2 million passengers. That was down 5.7% from the 11.87 million passengers the South Bay aviation hub handled over the one-year period that ended in August 2024.
At the current pace, San Jose Airport’s activity would finish below the 11.77 million passengers the aviation center handled during 2024. The 2024 total was 2.7% below the 12.1 million passengers the airport handled during 2023.
The most recent 12 months of passenger activity is 28.5% less than the total for all of 2019, when San Jose Airport accommodated a record total of 15.65 million passengers.
