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Storm clouds are visible over Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport on Feb. 11, 2026.\u00a0(Jane Tyska\/Bay Area News Group)<\/p>\nSAN JOSE \u2014 The Bay Area\u2019s three airports kicked off 2026 in shaky fashion with the total number of passenger trips in January falling below the levels of a year ago for the aviation hubs.<\/p>\n
All three airports handled fewer passenger trips during January compared with the same month in 2025, according to this news organization\u2019s review of travel statistics posted by the travel complexes.<\/p>\n
Storm clouds are visible over Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport on Feb. 11, 2026.\u00a0(Jane Tyska\/Bay Area News Group)<\/p>\n
Compared with January 2025, passenger trips in January of this year fell by 16% at San Jose International Airport, by 10.3% at Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport, and by 0.6% at San Francisco International Airport.<\/p>\n
Some longer-range measures of passenger trips, however, suggest that San Francisco Airport is performing better than both San Jose and San Francisco airports, a review of separate reports posted by the three airports shows.<\/p>\n
San Jose Airport handled 10.55 million passengers over the 12 months that ended in January 2026, which was down 10.4% from the 11.77 million passengers the South Bay airport accommodated over the one-year period that ended in January 2025.<\/p>\n
Oakland Airport accommodated 9.1 million passengers during the one-year period ending in January 2026, a decline of 14.7% from the 10.66 million passengers the East Bay airport handled over the 12 months that ended in January of last year.<\/p>\n
San Francisco Airport handled 54.51 million passengers over the 12 months ending in January 2026, which was an increase of 3.4% over the 52.7 million passengers that SFO accommodated over the one-year period that ended in January 2025.<\/p>\n
All three of the aviation hubs, however, remain below the altitudes they had reached in 2019, the final full year before the coronavirus-linked restrictions that hobbled the worldwide travel and hotel industries.<\/p>\n
A comparison of the passenger trip totals for the most recent 12 months to the totals for 2019 shows passenger activity has plunged 32.6% at San Jose Airport, nosedived by 32% at Oakland Airport, and has dropped 5.2% at San Francisco Airport.<\/p>\n
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