San Jose and Oakland worldwide airports every have prolonged a sturdy string of outcomes for passenger exercise — but each aviation hubs stay effectively beneath the traits they posted earlier than the coronavirus outbreak.
The newest air journey exercise outcomes from the South Bay and East Bay airports present that whereas each journey services have returned to sturdy ranges of month-to-month passenger journey, the 2 aviation hubs are nonetheless struggling to reclaim the pinnacles that they had reached forward of the arrival of the coronavirus.
San Jose Worldwide Airport dealt with barely greater than 1.09 million passengers throughout August, which marked the fourth straight month that the South Bay aviation complicated served at the very least a million month-to-month passengers.
Oakland Worldwide Airport dealt with barely fewer than 1.09 million passengers in August, the third consecutive month at a million or extra passengers served by the East Bay journey hub.
Over the 4 most up-to-date months, San Jose airport has averaged 1.08 million passengers a month, whereas Oakland airport has averaged 1.06 million passengers a month in the identical interval, from Could 2022 by August 2022.
These current intervals, nevertheless, have but to climb to the month-to-month passenger totals the 2 airports had been having fun with throughout 2019, the ultimate 12 months earlier than the coronavirus torpedoed the worldwide economic system typically and the journey and hospitality sector specifically.
San Jose airport’s most up-to-date common of 1.08 million passengers a month is 16.9% beneath the common of 1.3 million passengers a month that the airport achieved throughout 2019, a Bay Space Information Group evaluation of the San Jose flight statistics exhibits.
Oakland airport’s current four-month common of 1.06 million passengers was 5.4% beneath the common of 1.12 million a month throughout 2019 for the East Bay airport.
Nonetheless, regardless of these disappointing outcomes, the general traits on the two airports level in direction of enchancment.
San Jose Worldwide Airport averaged 908,900 passengers a month throughout the first eight months of 2022. That’s 49% larger than the common of 610,000 passengers a month for all of 2021 for the South Bay aviation hub.
Oakland Worldwide Airport averaged 906,221 passengers a month throughout the first eight months of 2022, a rise of 33.3% over the common of 680,000 passengers a month throughout 2021 for the East Bay complicated.
San Jose airport is on tempo to deal with 10.91 million passengers in 2022 if the present month-to-month common for your entire 12 months persists. Oakland airport, utilizing the identical metrics, is on tempo to deal with 10.87 million passengers in 2022.
Each of those projected numbers, nevertheless, could be far beneath the file heights to which the 2 airports had beforehand soared, based on statistics beforehand launched by the 2 airports.
In 2019, San Jose airport reached an all-time file excessive of 15.65 million passengers. In 2018, Oakland airport dealt with a record-high 13.59 million passengers.