SAN JOSE — Passenger trips through San Jose International Airport increased in May compared with April, but activity remains low compared with pre-COVID-19 figures.

The airport handled slightly more than 931,300 passengers in May, 4.5% higher than the roughly 891,300 it accommodated in April, according to new statistics posted by the travel center.

The May totals, however, were 9.5% below the number of passengers San Jose International Airport handled in May 2024.

Overall passenger trends remained low compared to levels the airport achieved in 2019, a year before the impacts of a worldwide pandemic.

Over the one-year period that ended in May, San Jose Airport handled 11.47 million passengers, this news organization’s analysis of the airport’s monthly reports shows. That figure is 26.7% below the 15.65 million passengers it accommodated in 2019, which was an all-time high.

In 2024, the airport accommodated 11.77 million passengers, 2.7% below the 12.1 million in 2023.

The passenger activity in 2024 worked out to about 980,000 passengers a month. The passenger trips for the 12 months ending in May of this year equated to an average of 960,000 passengers a month.

This year, San Jose International Airport has yet to handle 1 million or more passengers. The aviation hub’s last million-passenger month was in December 2024. However, it has seen increases in passenger trips for three consecutive months.

Regionally, both Oakland International Airport and San Francisco International Airport remain well below their pre-pandemic levels.

Oakland passenger trips over the 12 months that ended in March were 22.2% below the East Bay airport’s 2019 passenger totals.

San Francisco’s passenger trips during the one-year period ending in April were 7.3% below the 2019 result.