Talk:San Jose International Airport

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Contents 1 Article move? 2 Pictures? 3 Requested move (3 March 2006) 4 Requested move (28 March 2006) 4.1 Discussion 5 747 landing at San Jose 6 Demolition of part of Terminal C

[edit] Article move?

Should this be moved to Mineta San Jose International Airport? The media seems to include his name in it now. --Jiang 06:19, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

If the city has an accent mark in its name, does the airport? RickK 06:24, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Let's just go by what its official website says. --Jiang 06:27, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

It does have an accent. --Jiang 06:27, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

No one calls the airport by its full name. Reverted the page move --Jiang 05:10, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

What do think a redirect page is for? --James Anatidae 05:13, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

no. It already redirects from Mineta San Jose International Airport and also from SJC Kgrr 07:13, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

I think the article name should reflect the official name of the airport, and have all previous names redirect to the new page. --Will74205 05:56, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures?

Can someone post exterior and/or interior pictures of Terminal A and C? Construction pictures of the North Concourse would be good also. --Will74205 05:53, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Last time I was there, there wasn't really anything going on at all in terms of the construction of the North Concourse. It was just a fenced off area with construction trucks and whatnot. They've closed gate A1C, though, and when I go there, it's a nighttime. --User:butterfly0fdoom 16:43, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move (3 March 2006)

[edit] Requested move (28 March 2006)

[edit] 747 landing at San Jose

What is the history of SJC and 747s? That is how often have they landed there? and under what circumstances? Why don't the land there more often? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.254.97.10 (talk) 17:11, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Though the airliner runways 12L/30R and 12R/30L could handle the weight and are long enough, the compact layout of the runways and taxiways limit the wingspan of aircraft which can operate at SJC. The largest is a Boeing 777. American operated the daily non-stop flights to Tokyo using McDonnell Douglas MD-11 and later Boeing 777-200ER aircraft from 1992 to 2007. And even then, aircraft as large as MD-11s or Boeing 757s can't operate on some adjacent taxiways when a 777 uses a taxiway or the runways. See the wingspan restrictions at http://airnav.com/airport/KSJC (this page is a copy of federal publications about the airport). Ikluft 18:39, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

I stand corrected. I saw a Boeing 747SP take off from SJC at 4:18PM today (Nov 19, 2007). This is an extremely rare event, though apparently not the first. I looked up which plane it is on FlightAware.com and posted a screenshot so that it will be accessible here even after the web site where I got it expires the data about that flight. With some net-sleuthing, some friends and I were able to determine this aircraft (previously N747FU, recently re-registered N747A) belongs to Fry's Electronics which is headquartered in San Jose. I found a history of that airframe at 747SP.com. It says N747A just got out of being repainted and overhauled on Oct 19 at San Bernardino CA and began making shakedown flights on Nov 9 following additional work in Victorville CA. The FAA registration on N747A matches the street address of Fry's Electronics headquarters in San Jose. In the process of looking for this, a friend also found photos of a previous 747-400 charter plane at SJC in Apr 2007 at airliners.net. That page claims there was one previous 747 at SJC in the 1970's. I noticed the airport publications at http://airnav.com/airport/KSJC now have new instructions for "unscheduled operations by Group 5 aircraft (B747) and larger" to contact the airport manager first. And I checked the wingspan of a 747SP - it's 3 feet shorter than the 777-200ER which already operated out of SJC for the previously-mentioned Tokyo route. Note that 747-300 and 747-400 models have wider wingspans, which will have some additional effect on airport operations whenever they are present. So this changes the previous answer - 747's are still rare at SJC but now they're on the menu. Ikluft (talk) 04:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Additional reference: "San Jose Ballet's head-turning move", San Jose Mercury News, Nov 21, 2007. See the quote of an airport spokesman at the end of the article about two previous 747 landings at SJC before N747FU landed twice on Nov 19. So the total 747 landings at SJC appears to be 4, and will now go up with each return of N747FU. Ikluft (talk) 01:57, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Demolition of part of Terminal C

I see on the revision history that there seems to be disagreement over which gates are remaining and which were removed at Terminal C for the Terminal B construction. Let me point out the updated map of SJC Terminal C shows the terminal now has gates C1 to C14. Whoever keeps saying that C12, C13 and C14 have been demolished, please wait until that happens. Yes, eventually all of the current Terminal C (the original San Jose Municipal Airport terminal) will be demolished. But let's keep an accurate pace with it. Ikluft (talk) 05:03, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

The Feb 8 construction update also addresses the Terminal C partial demolition to make room for Terminal B construction. Some gates were relocated. Ikluft (talk) 19:03, 13 February 2008 (UTC)