San Diego Union Tribune
Lori Weisberg
18 Feb 2026
A record number of passengers flew in and out of San Diego’s international airport in 2025, coinciding with the debut late in the year of the first phase of a new Terminal 1.
Even with the partial shutdown of several gates during construction that inhibited Southwest Airlines’ long-term expansion plans here, air travel was robust enough last year to compensate for that.
A year-end report released Wednesday by the airport revealed that 25.32 million passengers flew through Terminals 1 and 2 in 2025, representing a slight increase of 0.3% over 2024, which had been a record-setting year...
