Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport

Norman Y. Mineta San José International Airport (SJC), named for the former U.S. Secretary of Transportation born in San Jose, is one of three major Bay Area airports — alongside San Francisco (SFO) and Oakland (OAK) — and serves the heart of Silicon Valley. SJC handles more than 12 million passengers a year and has built a distinctively business-heavy traffic mix, with outsized demand from Apple, Google, Meta, Nvidia, Adobe and Cisco corporate travel. The airport is operated by the City of San Jose Department of Aviation. SJC occupies approximately 410 ha (1,050 acres) barely 5 km (3 mi) from downtown San Jose, at an elevation of 62 ft (19 m) — one of the closer airport-to-CBD pairings in the United States. Two parallel concrete runways, 12L/30R and 12R/30L, each 11,000 ft (3,353 m) long, support widebody operations and allow simultaneous independent operations. Terminal A and Terminal B are joined by a common landside concourse with 30 gates; Terminal B was fully modernized in 2017 and a further concourse expansion announced in 2023 will add seven gates by the late 2020s. Twenty-eight airlines link SJC to 61 nonstop destinations, with Southwest, Alaska, American, Delta, United, JetBlue, Hawaiian and Frontier providing the densest domestic networks, and international service from All Nippon Airways (Tokyo Narita), British Airways (London Heathrow), Air Canada (Vancouver and Toronto), Zipair (Tokyo) and Volaris (Guadalajara, Mexico City and Morelia). Its concentration of Silicon Valley corporate demand, its proximity to the U.S.-Japan and U.S.-India tech corridors and its role as a secondary transpacific gateway keep SJC strategically important well beyond its mid-tier ranking (2025).