List of the busiest airports in California

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List of the busiest airports in California In Calendar year 2022 (FAA data) by 'passenger boardings, not total passengers, except for Tijuana. While large airports dominant traffic and small airports struggle to retain carriers or completely lose scheduled passenger service, there are but a few growing medium-sized airports. While only 13 airports had 350,000 boardings or more, the major metropolitan areas dominate the rankings; road traffic instead takes an outsized role in connecting to other regions of the state and winner-take-all dominating airports in traffic clogged areas like LAX crowd out smaller airports from commercial aviation, leaving little option but driving.

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Airport list

Rank
2022		Airports (large hubs)IATA
Code		CityState202220212018 [1] 2017 [2] 2016 [3] 2015 [3] 2014 [4] 2013 [5] 2012 [6] 2011 [7] 2010 [8] 2009 [9] 2008 [9] 2007 [10] 2006 [11] 2005 [12]
1 Los Angeles International Airport LAX Los Angeles CA32,326,61623,663,41042,624,05041,232,43239,636,04236,351,27234,314,19732,425,89231,326,26830,528,73728,857,75527,439,89728,861,47730,113,98529,357,32729,372,272
2 San Francisco International Airport SFO San Francisco CA20,411,42011,725,34727,790,71726,900,04825,707,10124,190,56022,756,00821,704,62621,284,22420,038,67919,359,00318,467,90818,135,82717,280,32816,236,59216,070,133
3 San Diego International Airport SAN San Diego CA11,162,2247,836,36012,174,22411,139,93310,340,1649,985,7639,333,1528,878,7728,686,5928,465,6838,430,5098,453,8549,007,6179,138,1168,724,4428,628,648
4 Tijuana International Airport [lower-alpha 1] TIJ Tijuana and San Diego Baja California12,308,3709,677,9007,823,7447,089,2196,318,826 [13] 4,387,865
4 Sacramento International Airport SMF Sacramento CA6,040,8244,760,2755,907,6295,341,5954,969,3664,714,7294,384,6164,255,1454,357,8994,370,895
5 San Jose International Airport SJC San Jose CA5,590,1373,619,6907,032,8516,130,8785,321,6034,822,4804,621,0034,315,8394,077,6544,108,006
6 John Wayne International Airport SNA Santa Ana CA5,536,3133,807,2055,201,6425,082,7165,217,2424,945,2094,584,1474,540,6284,381,1724,247,802
7 Oakland International Airport OAK Oakland CA5,506,2324,011,9536,686,6036,413,8325,934,6395,506,6875,069,2574,770,7164,926,6834,550,526
8 Hollywood Burbank Airport BUR Burbank CA3,054,7291,942,4172,680,2402,402,1062,077,8921,973,8971,928,4911,918,0112,027,2032,144,915
9 Ontario International Airport ONT Ontario CA2,840,7582,201,5282,498,9932,247,6452,104,6252,089,8012,037,3461,970,5382,142,3932,271,458
10 Long Beach Airport LGB Long Beach CA1,600,9871,039,4321,908,6351,830,7451,386,3571,220,9371,368,9231,438,7561,554,8461,512,212
11 Palm Springs Airport PSP Palm Springs CA1,499,9871,044,0451,163,8831,055,970995,801947,728953,607875,699867,720759,910
12 Fresno International Airport FAT Fresno CA1,077,710960,594853,538755,140761,298695,008710,353684,849640,250615,320
13 Santa Barbara Airport SBA Santa Barbara CA610,916440,229403,745356,608329,751316,511355,049364,360370,600367,328

Notes

  1. ↑ Tijuana airport is equipped to allow boarding from the California side via the Cross Border Xpress since the end of 2015, figures for this airport are in italics. It is Mexico's 5th busiest airport by departure seats offered.

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy18-commercial-service-enplanements.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  2. ↑ https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy17-commercial-service-enplanements.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  3. 1 2 CY 2016 Primary Airports
  4. ↑ CY 2014 Primary Airports -- Preliminary Data
  5. ↑ CY 2013 Primary Airports
  6. ↑ CY 2012 Primary Airports
  7. ↑ CY 2011 Primary Airports
  8. ↑ CY 2010 Enplanements at Primary Airports Archived 2015-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
  9. 1 2 CY 2009 Passenger Boarding and All-Cargo Data
  10. ↑ Federal Aviation Administration 2007 passenger boarding statistics
  11. ↑ Federal Aviation Administration 2006 passenger boarding statistics
  12. ↑ Federal Aviation Administration 2005 passenger boarding statistics
  13. ↑ "Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes: Estadística Operacional de Aeropuertos / Airports operational statistics". Archived from the original on 2016-03-15. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
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