Passenger, Freight Volumes Drop at San Jose Airport

January 12, 2004

Passenger, Freight Volumes Drop at San Jose Airport
San Jose Business Journal, CA

Air passenger and cargo traffic continue to decline at
Mineta San Jose International Airport, the latest
numbers show. 
  
Passenger traffic was down 2.1 percent in November
2003 compared to November 2002. For the first 11
months of 2003, traffic is down 3.8 percent compared
to the same period in 2002. 

Mineta San Jose had a total of 837,379 people arriving
and departing in November 2003. For the year, 9.79
million passengers either arrived or departed from the
airport. 

Domestic cargo numbers continue to suffer. November's
cargo traffic was down 29.2 percent from November
2002. For the first 11 months of 2003, cargo traffic
is down 23.3 percent compared to a year earlier. 

Mineta San Jose, which is heavily dependent on
business travel, has suffered from an overall decline
in business travel nationwide since the Sept. 11, 2001
terrorist attacks. That trend has been magnified in
Silicon Valley where more than 200,000 jobs have
disappeared over the past three years. 



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