Officials with the Mineta San Jose International Airport said Saturday evening that power was restored following an outage.
An airport spokesperson told NBC Bay Area the power went down at around 6:30 p.m. and was restored about an hour later. Officials said that backup systems did go on but it’s not clear if they all worked.
Some passengers at SJC told NBC Bay Area when their planes landed, they had to wait on the tarmac longer than usual, because power was out and the jet bridges connecting to the terminal were dark and not operating.
Salinas resident Juan Oliverez said his wife missed her flight to London because of the power outage and TSA couldn’t do security screenings without electricity.
“But by that time everyone was stopped at the TSA check, there was a huge line and there was nothing we could do at that point,” he said.
Airport officials said that it’s not known what caused the power failure or if departures were impacted.
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San Jose resident Sean Mearns said he was directed to take a different path to baggage claim.
“Normally, we go right here to baggage claim. But we were made to go all the way around the airport and it seemed a lot darker than normal,” he said.
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Some passengers also said they couldn’t use the kiosks to printout boarding passes.
