Aviation View | April 2021

64 AVIATION VIEW APRIL 2021 some other airports are still down at 20, and 25 and 30 percent, for some reason this region of California seems to have bounced back – whether you call it passenger confidence, or just the people needing to go from point A to point B – for whatever reason, it just seems to happen in our market.” A big reason is the airport’s location in California’s central valley; the growth in that area and its distance from the state’s other major population centers. Fresno Yosemite International started out as a military base used by the U.S. Air Force at what was then known as Hammer Airfield during World War II. Civilians used nearby Fresno