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San Jose International Airport
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San Jose International Airport , officially Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport and branded as San José Mineta International Airport, is a city-owned public airport in San Jose, California, United States. It serves the Santa Clara Valley region of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is named after San Jose native Norman Mineta, former United States Secretary of Transportation and United States Secretary of Commerce, who also served as Mayor of San Jose and as a San Jose City Councilman.
While San Jose is the largest city in the Bay Area, SJC is the Bay Area's second-busiest airport by passenger boarding, behind San Francisco International Airport. In addition, the airport is also an official U.S. Customs and Border Protection international port of entry. It is situated three miles northwest of Downtown San Jose near the intersections of U.S. Route 101, Interstate 880, and State Route 87. In 2021, 54% of departing or arriving passengers at SJC flew on Southwest Airlines; Alaska Airlines was the second most popular airline with about 19% of passengers.
San Jose is the largest city in the Bay Area by both population and area, but SJC is the second-busiest of the three Bay Area airports by passenger count after SFO. SJC served 14.3 million passengers in 2018, surpassing its previous record of 14.2 million passengers set in 2001. Since 2012, SJC has experienced one of the fastest rates of seat capacity growth among major airports in the United States.
SJC is near downtown San Jose (less than from the city center and easily within city limits), unlike SFO and OAK, which are around and from their downtowns. The location near downtown San Jose is convenient, but SJC is surrounded by the city and has little room for expansion. The proximity to downtown limits the height of buildings in downtown San Jose, to comply with FAA rules.
In 1939, Ernie Renzel, a wholesale grocer and future mayor of San Jose, led a group that negotiated an option to buy of the Stockton Ranch from the Crocker family, to be the site of San Jose's airport.
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