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San Francisco International Airport is located 13 miles (21 km) south of San Francisco, California, located in San Mateo County and adjacent to the cities of Millbrae and San Bruno.
It is a hub of United Airlines and has the IATA Airport Code SFO. The airport was first opened on May 7, 1927. It now has service to other destinations within the United States, as well as Canada, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australasia.
It is one of three major airports in the San Francisco Bay Area. It can experience significant delays in adverse weather, when half of its runways cannot be used. Airport planners have floated proposals to extend the airport's runways further into San Francisco Bay in order to accomodate the next generation of super-jumbo aircraft. In order to expand into the bay, the airport would have to restore bayland elsewhere in the Bay Area. Such proposals have met resistance among environmental groups, fearing damage to the habitat of animals living there and bay water quality. As such, San Francisco International Airport will probably remain popular but stagnant while its two neighbor airports (Oakland International Airport in Oakland, California and San Jose International Airport in San Jose, California) will continue to grow.
SFO has seemingly been under continuous expansion through the decades. The latest projects completed were a new $1 billion international terminal opened in December 2000 and an extension of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system to the airport opened June 22, 2003.
San Francisco International Airport has 3 Terminals.
Terminals
Terminal 1
- Air Canada
- Alaska Airlines (United States and Canada)
- America West Airlines
- American Trans Air
- Continental Airlines
- Delta Air Lines
- Frontier Airlines
- Hawaiian Airlines
- Midwest Airlines
- National Airlines
- Northwest Airlines (Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Detroit; Memphis International Airport, Memphis; and Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, Minneapolis)
- US Airways
Terminal 3
- American Airlines
- Skywest dba United Express
- United Airlines (United States and Canada)
International Terminal
- Aeroflot
- Air China
- Air France
- Alaska Airlines (Mexico)
- All Nippon Airways
- Asiana
- British Airways
- Cathay Pacific
- China Airlines
- EVA Air
- Grupo Taca
- Japan Airlines
- KLM
- Korean Air
- LACSA
- Lufthansa
- Mexicana
- Northwest Airlines (New Tokyo International Airport, Narita, Japan)
- Philippine Airlines
- Singapore Airlines
- United Airlines (International Flights)
- Virgin Atlantic