OAKLAND — Oakland International Airport experienced an upswing in passenger traffic in April, a sign that the East Bay aviation hub has extended its recovery from the coronavirus-induced economic malaise.
Nearly 938,400 air passengers traveled through Oakland Airport during April, an improvement on a month-to-month as well as a year-to-year basis, officials reported.
The biggest challenge facing the aviation complex: the airport has yet to soar back to the levels it enjoyed in 2019, the final full year before the global coronavirus outbreak.
The East Bay aviation hub isn’t alone among Bay Area airports struggling to reclaim pre-coronavirus passenger activity levels. San Jose International Airport and San Francisco International Airport continue to cruise at passenger levels far below those they reached prior to COVID-19’s onset.
Still, Oakland Airport is clearly on the mend, even it faces a difficult climb to reclaim its prior heights. The April passenger activity at Oakland Airport is 2.8% higher than in March, and 2.2% higher than the number of passengers it accommodated a year earlier in April 2022.
Plus, Oakland Airport in April posted its best month since November 2022.
Over the most recent one-year period that ended in April, Oakland accommodated 11.6 million passengers. That was 4.1% higher than the 11.15 million passengers it handled in 2022.
Despite this improvement, the passenger levels during the recent 12 months were 13.3% below the total of 13.38 million passengers in the pre-COVID year of 2019.
The next major benchmark for Oakland Airport could be getting back to an average of 1 million passengers a month for a one-year period. During the 12 months that ended in April, the East Bay averaged 970,000 passengers a month.
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