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San Jose airport shifts emphasis to asset preservation as passenger growth stabilizes
Summary
Airport officials told the committee that passenger levels remain below pre-pandemic growth forecasts, prompting a near-term focus on asset preservation (estimated $30 million over five years) while the Terminal C expansion remains in the master plan with a 2023 estimate of about $1.8 billion; airport operations are funded largely from enterprise revenues, not the general fund.
San Jose ' San Jose Mineta International Airport leaders told the Transportation and Environment Committee they are shifting emphasis from near-term expansion to an asset-preservation program as passenger growth stabilizes below earlier forecasts.
"My name is Mookie Patel. I'm the director of aviation at San Jose Mineta International Airport," Mookie Patel said as he introduced the airport briefing, noting he and deputy director Fai Ali would present a master-plan update and an asset-preservation status report.
Fai Ali described projects completed as part of the master-plan enabling work (a six-gate interim facility completed in June 2019 at a stated cost of $58,000,000, a new ARFF/fire facility and a facilities/engineering campus) and said the…
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