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Calendar 2025, announced February 2026
The record: South Bend International Airport closed 2025 with the busiest year in its history: 1,111,002 ticketed passengers, up 23.5 percent over 2024, a fifth straight year of growth, and past the old record of 991,457 set in 1997 — the figure stands in the St. Joseph County Airport Authority's own release of February 2026. For the federal series behind it, the FAA's enplanement count for 2024 was 451,184. The airport's whole record — Bendix Field's unlocated grounds, the 2014–2019 building of the "International" name, the federal inspection station of 16 July 2019 — stands in the Airports section; the line for this portrait is that the airport enters the winter of 2026–27 off an all-time record year, with the 2026 count not yet published in the record reached.
Sources:
- St. Joseph County Airport Authority — release of February 2026 (1,111,002 ticketed passengers in 2025; +23.5 percent; the 1997 record of 991,457).
- Federal Aviation Administration — enplanements, calendar 2024 (451,184).
- The Airports section of this history.