Aviation View | April 2021

63 AVIATION VIEW APRIL 2021 FRESNO YOSEMI TE INTERNAT IONAL A I RPORT Like all airports, Fresno Yosemite International has been impacted by COVID-19. But airport leaders take the long view, and if the past is any indication, Fresno Yosemite International will soon be busier than it was before the pandemic. Since coming out of the Great Recession in 2010, the airport has grown 67 percent. What’s more, every time the aviation industry suffers a setback, Fresno Yosemite International bounces back before its peers. After Sept. 11, 2001, the airport recovered back to its pre-9/11 activity level twice as fast as the national average. After the Great Recession, the airport again recovered twice as fast as the national average. Activity fell off when the pandemic hit in late March and early April 2020 but started coming back in May. That growth has continued and the airport is once again recovering twice as fast as the national average. Meikle reports, “We’re hitting days where we’re over 70 percent of what we were last year at the same time. Where International activity at FAT Mid-Century Modern Terminal Drive