San Jose Mineta SJC Airport Overview


Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport SJC is located off Guadalupe Pakway, near the intersections of three major freeways, (US 101, I-880 and Route 87) and is 4 km from San Jose, California, the third-largest city in the state, situated at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay Area. San Jose Airport is known as the gateway to the high-tech area of Silicon Valley.
With three runways and an estimated 5.5 million passengers a year, Mineta San Jose Airport is served by domestic and Mexican airlines offering direct and connecting flights to all points of the globe.

As San Jose Airport outgrew its facilities, it embarked on a major airport improvement program to update terminal, roadway, airfield and parking facilities. The information below reflects the present status of the Airport's improvement program:

Terminal A of Mineta San Jose Airport: The Airport completed its facelift of this terminal with the following upgrades: The expanded security checkpoint in Terminal A has eight lanes for faster processing and shorter lines, plus new shops and restaurants. The new shopping, dining and pre-boarding areas in Terminal A are open with front-row views of the airfield. It also has new street-level ticketing lobbies and, on the second floor (previously occupied by ticket counters & concessions), an expanded security checkpoint with 8 lanes (& future 12 lanes). In anticipation of the opening of Terminal B, gates were renumbered to gates 1 to 16 (International Arrivals/departures by Mexicana are at gates 15 & 16)

Present amenities & services at Terminal A include: Ticket counters 1 to 8 for United, US Airways, Volaris, Continental, American/ American Eagle, Mexicana, Hawaiian & JetBlue. Three baggage carousels at pre-security; one of which is for international flights; 7 food & drink establishments are at post-security, as well as 7 shops; Hudson News is in pre-security. The informaton both is near the entrance, with close-by Currency Exchange, Parking pay station, FedEx and Hotel information points. The Meeter & Greeter area is in the centr of the 2d floor. ATM machines are located in the areas of gates 15-16, 12-14, 9-11 & 1-8. for first aid, call 111 from a white courtesy phone or 911 from a standard phone.

Terminal B of Mineta San Jose Airport: The spectacular Terminal B opened officially on June 30, 2010, thereby replacing Terminal C (which is being dismantled). It displays its futuristic design, offers plenty of daylight, art, shared-use ticket counters & gates, and chairs with power cords & USB ports on their armrests for charging laptops & handhelds..
While plans call for two concourses - the North and the South Concourse - only the North Concourse has so far been built and has 12 gates (17 to 28) used by Southwest as the primary tenant, along with Alaska, Horizon & Delta airlines. (It is planned to build the South Concourse once traffic levels justify such expansion.)

Present amenities & services at Terminal B include: Ticket counters 1-4 for Southwest, Alask Horizon& Delta; three baggage carousels; 15 food & drink establishments (only Starbucks is at  pre-security), 9 shops ( oly San Jo Marketplae is at pre-security); Information booth, hotel board, postal services, lost & Found & USO are pre-security, 1 ATM machine in in pre-security and 2 ATMs are in post-security; for first aid, call 111 from a white courtesy phone or 911 from a standard phone.
For regularly updated recorded message about roads, terminals and parking call (408) 501-0630.

Note that the new Rental Car Center is now part of the new state-of-the-art multi-level Rental Car Center & Parking Garage, with public parking and rental car offices on the ground floor, and rental cars parked on the following floors:
Hertz-2d fl.; Advantage-3d fl.; Avis-4th fl.; Budget & Fox-5th fl.; Enterprise, Alamo, National-6th fl.; Dollar, Thrifty-7th fl.
You can access the Rental Car Center from Terminal B's baggage claim crosswalk by walking across Airport Blvd. If you arrive at Terminal A, take the blue shuttle bus to the Rental Car Center; if you depart from TA, take the inter-terminal blue shuttle bus back to TA. If you arrive after hours, call 408-970-9623.

If you need to pick up a passenger at San Jose Airport,
use the Cell Phone Lot on either side of Airport Parkway North, off Technology, which offers 30-minute free parking. Stay with your car until your party has collected luggage and calls you to be picked up at the curb. If you are picking up/dropping of passengers, you stop your vehicle curbside in front of either Terminals  A or B to actively load/unload. Solo passengers must park their car in the parking lot and bring baggage to curbside check-in or the ticket counter (use Smarte Cartes for your baggage). An alternate drop-off area is on Martin Avenue, at the back of the Long-term parking lot. At the drop-off point, proceed to shuttle stop L and wait at the designated bus stop for the shuttle that will take you to your terminal. Shuttles arrive every five minutes.

Present parking options at Mineta San Jose Airport include:
1. Long-term Parking lot located at 325 Martin Avenue--from Hwy 101 take De La Cruz exit, head west. Turn left on Martin Avenue. Free shuttle to Terminals.
2. Parking Garage attached to Terminal A, with shuttle service every 10 minutes. Clearance: 7 feet, and entry & 1st floor 8 feet.
3. The new consolidated multi-level Rental Car Center & Parking Garage (near the site of the former Terminal C) , offers parking on the ground level. Terminal B passengers can walk directly across Airport Blvd., while Terminal A passeners need to take the blue shuttle bus.
4. Disabled parking is available in all Airport parking areas. Vehicles displaying the appropriate state issued placard may park in the Terminal A garage or the hourly lot across at the long-term rate.

To get from Mineta San Jose Airport to your destination, you have a choice of renting a car at the Rental Car Center, taking a taxi or limo, or the area public buses. Furthermore, the free VTA Route 10 Airport Flyer connects the airport to the Santa Clara Station for Caltrain and Altamont Commuter Express rail services, as well as to numerous local buses, and to the Metro/Airport Light Rail Station for VTA's light rail service. 
The following modes of transportation make pickups in front of, or near the terminals: inter-terminal and rental car shuttles, charters, door-to-door shuttles, liimos, taxis, offsite courtesy shuttles, long-term parking shutte, scheduled buses, & Airport Flyer.

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SJC Delays Status: 15 mins or less.

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