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2000–2025 · enplanements and intermodal course — boundary size
South Bend International's standing claim is intermodal: the airport presents itself as the first truly multi-modal airport in the country, and the components are verifiable one by one. The South Shore Line's airport station (NICTD) stands at the terminal, with trains to Millennium Station, Chicago, the fastest scheduled at one hour fifty-five minutes. Transpo's Route 4 bus serves the field; interstate bus service moved downtown in 2019; and in 2025 American Airlines' Landline bus connection to Chicago O'Hare was added. Rail, city bus, and airline-network bus meet one terminal building.
The passenger series is the FAA enplanement record as carried in the field's standard reference table: 2000: 432,439; 2001: 375,817; 2002: 409,319; 2003: 404,607; 2004: 397,565; 2005: 349,847; 2006: 378,909; 2007: 398,500; 2008: 357,168; 2009: 318,974; 2010: 317,096; 2011: 305,386; 2012: 299,592; 2013: 328,992; 2014: 311,158; 2015: 315,313; 2016: 328,897; 2017: 305,491; 2018: 368,377; 2019: 417,929; 2020: 209,214; 2021: 341,343; 2022: 363,078; 2023: 411,377; 2024: 451,184 (up 9.6 percent, per the authority). One conflict in the record is printed whole and not resolved: a text account citing FAA and authority records gives 337,140 enplanements for 2020, against the series table's 209,214 for the same year. Cargo ran 19.2 million pounds in 2024. The recovery then broke the field's own record: total ticketed airline passengers in 2025 reached 1,111,002 — the airport's busiest year ever, surpassing the 1997 record of 991,457 total passengers, up 23.5 percent over 2024 — with March 2025 enplanements of 50,602, the first month over 50,000 (Michiana Business News, February 2026, reporting the authority's figures).