Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport

San Jose Mineta International Airport (KSJC) sits in San Jose, 3 miles north of downtown. The field handles commercial service and a substantial volume of business and charter aviation — for the Silicon Valley corporate corridor (Palo Alto, Mountain View, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, downtown San Jose), KSJC is the close-in alternative to KSFO and the natural default for charter flights into the South Bay tech cluster.

The primary runway 12L/30R is 11,000 feet — comfortable for ultra-long-range jets at MTOW for transpacific departures. Signature, Atlantic, and ACI Jet handle private movements with substantial hangar capacity. The structural KSJC operational considerations are slot pressure during major Silicon Valley event windows (Salesforce Dreamforce, Apple WWDC, Google IO when nearby), the noise framework that includes overnight curfew on Stage 2 aircraft, and the Bay Area marine-layer pattern that can drive arrival holds during May–August mornings. Field elevation is 62 feet, no density-altitude concerns. Ground time to Palo Alto is 25–35 minutes; Mountain View / Google is 20–30; Cupertino / Apple is 15–25; downtown San Francisco is 50–75 minutes depending on 101 traffic.

San José Mineta International Airport —officially Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport—is a city-owned public airport in San Jose, California. Located 3 mi (4.8 km) northwest of Downtown San Jose, the airport serves both the city and the Santa Clara Valley region of the greater Bay Area. It is named after San Jose native Norman Mineta, former United States Secretary of Transportation and United States Secretary of Commerce, who also served as Mayor of San Jose and as a San Jose City Councilman.