SAN JOSE — San Jose Mineta International Airport has yet to reclaim the level of passenger activity it enjoyed in 2019, the final full year before pandemic-related global impacts made their mark.

The travel hub handled about 891,300 passengers during April, according to information posted by the airport. Those trips represented a 7.8% decline compared with the 966,300 passengers that it accommodated in April 2024.

In a hopeful sign, however, passenger trips at the South Bay airport have increased for two consecutive months, in March and then in April, an assessment of the airport’s passenger statistics shows.

Trips nosedived to a recent low in February when the aviation hub handled just 746,200 passengers. That was the weakest month for passenger trips since February 2022.

Over the 12 months that ended in April, San Jose International Airport handled 11.57 million passengers. That was 1.7% below the 11.77 million passengers that the aviation complex handled in 2024.

The millions of passengers the airport handled over the most recent one-year period was down 26.1% from the 15.65 million passengers it saw in 2019, which was an all-time record.

That shortfall compared to the pre-COVID-19 year holds true for the other two major Bay Area airports.

San Francisco International Airport, for the 12 months that ended in March, handled 52.97 million passengers. That was 7.9% below the 57.49 million passengers it saw in 2019.

Oakland International Airport, over the one-year period ending in March, handled 10.41 million passengers. That was down 22.2% from the 13.38 million passengers it reported in 2019.

In March, the Oakland airport accommodated nearly 784,600 passengers, which was down 13.2% from the same month the year before.