“Southwest, Frontier, Alaska, along with other carriers that are growing bit by bit at San Jose gives people the ability to travel that they didn’t have in the past,” Barnes said. The expansion by Southwest leaves Bay Area travelers poised to take advantage of lower fares due to increased competition. “There is a fear of an inevitiable dip in the economy, but unemployment is at record lows and people are feeling confident in the economy.” “The economy and Silicon Valley continue to hum along,” Barnes said. That’s much stronger passenger growth than 2017, when trips rose 15.6 percent 2016, when passenger activity increased 10.2 percent compared with the year before and 2015, when passenger trips were up 4.4 percent. Southwest’s plans to create gateways connecting Hawaii to Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento and San Diego must clear regulatory approval by the Federal Aviation Administration.ĭuring the first three months of 2018, passenger activity soared 18.5 percent compared to the same three-month period of 2017. Plus, Southwest last week disclosed plans to connect both Oakland International Airport and Mineta San Jose International Airport with flights to at least one destination, and possibly multiple major destinations, in the Hawaiian Islands. “This transcontinental nonstop journey between the South Bay-Peninsula areas and Florida is another addition in a steady drumbeat of investment Southwest is making in San Jose,” said said Nate Barker, senior capacity planner for Southwest Airlines. Louis New Orleans and Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Orlando, Florida flights add to new Southwest nonstop routes serving San Jose that the airline has added in recent weeks, including connections to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Boise, Idaho Spokane, Wash. “Our traffic has been showing a steady increase since 2014.” “We really have been on a roll at San Jose,” said Rosemary Barnes, a spokeswoman for Mineta San Jose International Airport. SAN JOSE - Southwest Airlines has launched new service that links San Jose airport with Orlando, trips that come just in time for spring and summer jaunts to the Disney World Resort in Florida.
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