SANTA ANA, Calif. - Airline passenger traffic at John Wayne Airport increased in March 2022 as compared to March 2021. In March 2022, the Airport served 916,767 passengers, an increase of 137.9% when compared with the March 2021 passenger traffic count of 385,396.
- Compared to 337,981 passengers in March 2020, there was an increase of 171.2%.
- Compared to 923,403 passengers in March 2019, there was a decrease of 0.7%.
Commercial aircraft operations in March 2022 of 7,710 increased 45.1% and commuter aircraft operations of 484 increased 50.8% when comparing with March 2021 levels.
- Compared to 2020 levels of commercial aircraft operations, there was an increase of 38.1% and commuter aircraft operations decreased 3.2%.
- Compared to 2019 levels of commercial aircraft operations there was a decrease of 0.1% and commuter aircraft operations increased 21.0%.
Total aircraft operations increased in March 2022 as compared with the same month in 2021. In March 2022, there were 25,299 total aircraft operations (take-offs and landings), a 1.1% increase compared to 25,021 total aircraft operations in March 2021.
- Compared to March 2020 of 17,020, total aircraft operations increased 48.6%.
- Compared to March 2019 of 26,107, total aircraft operations decreased 3.1%.
General aviation activity of 17,056 accounted for 67.4% of the total aircraft operations during March 2022, and decreased 11.9% compared with March 2021.
- Compared to March 2020 general aviation activity of 10,906, which accounted for 64.1% of total aircraft operations, operations increased 56.4%.
- Compared to March 2019, general aviation activity of 17,903, which accounted for 68.6% of total aircraft operations, operations decreased 4.7%.
The top three airlines in March 2022 based on passenger count were Southwest Airlines (336,102), American Airlines (154,412) and United Airlines (141,003).