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| ====Rotunda A (gates 1-17)==== | ====Rotunda A (gates 1-17)==== | ||
| *] (Atlanta) | |||
| *] | *] (Milwaukee) | ||
| *] | |||
| *] (Charlotte, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh) | |||
| ====Boarding Area B (gates 20-36)==== | ====Boarding Area B (gates 20-36)==== | ||
| *] | *] (Toronto) | ||
| *] ( |
*] (Palm Springs, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver) | ||
| *] | *] (Boston, Las Vegas, New York JFK, Phoenix) | ||
| *] | *] (Chicago Midway, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Lihue, Maui) | ||
| *] | *] (Cleveland, Houston Bush, Newark) | ||
| *] | *] (Denver) | ||
| ⚫ | *] | ||
| ====Boarding Area C (gates 40-48)==== | ====Boarding Area C (gates 40-48)==== | ||
| *] | *] (Atlanta, Cincinnati, Dallas/Fort Worth, Salt Lake City) | ||
| *] | *] (Honolulu) | ||
| *] ( |
*] (Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul) | ||
| ===Terminal 2=== | ===Terminal 2=== | ||
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| ===Terminal 3=== | ===Terminal 3=== | ||
| ====Boarding Area E (gates 60-67)==== | ====Boarding Area E (gates 60-67)==== | ||
| *] (Boston, Chicago O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Honolulu, Kahului, Los Angeles, Miami, New York JFK, St. Louis) | |||
| ⚫ | *] | ||
| ====Boarding Area F (gates 68-90)==== | ====Boarding Area F (gates 68-90)==== | ||
| *] (Cabo San Lucas, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Puerto Vallarta) | |||
| *] | |||
| *] (Anchorage, Baltimore/Washington, Boston, Burbank, Chicago O'Hare, Denver, Honolulu, Kona, Las Vegas, Lihue, Los Angeles, Maui, New Orleans, New York JFK, Newark, Orange County, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, Seattle/Tacoma, Vancouver, Washington Dulles) | |||
| *] (United States and Canada) | |||
| *]/] (Bakersfield, Boise, Burbank, Chico, Eugene, Eureka, Fresno, Medford, Modesto, Monterey, Redding, Redmond/Bend, Reno, Sacramento, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara) | |||
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| ===International Terminal=== | ===International Terminal=== | ||
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| ====Boarding Area A==== | ====Boarding Area A==== | ||
| *] | *] (Paris de Gaulle) | ||
| *] ( |
*] (Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Los Cabos, Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta) | ||
| ⚫ | *] (Cancun) | ||
| *] | *] (London Heathrow) | ||
| *] | *] (Hong Kong) | ||
| *] | |||
| ⚫ | *] (Taipei) | ||
| *] (starting ], ]) | *] (starting ], ]) | ||
| *] | *] (Tokyo Narita) | ||
| *] | *] (Amsterdam) | ||
| *] | *] (Seoul Incheon) | ||
| *] (Tokyo Narita) | |||
| *] | |||
| *] ( |
*] (Manila) | ||
| *] (San Jose, Costa Rica) | |||
| *] | |||
| ⚫ | *] (London Heathrow) | ||
| *] | |||
| ⚫ | *] | ||
| ====Boarding Area G==== | ====Boarding Area G==== | ||
| *] | *] (Beijing) | ||
| *] | *] (Auckland) | ||
| *] | *] (Tokyo Narita) | ||
| *] | *] (Seoul Incheon) | ||
| *] | *] (Taipei) | ||
| *] | *] (Frankfurt, Munich) | ||
| *] | *] (Mexico City, Morelia) | ||
| *] | *] (Singapore) | ||
| *] (Bangkok, Beijing, London Heathrow, Mexico City, Osaka, Seoul Incheon, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo Narita) | |||
| *] (International Flights) | |||
| ==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
Revision as of 05:47, 4 September 2004
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. The airport has flights to destinations throughout the Americas and is a major gateway to Europe, Asia, and Australasia. It is a hub of United Airlines and has the IATA Airport Code SFO.
It is one of three major airports in the San Francisco Bay Area. It can experience significant delays in adverse weather, when only one runway can be used. Airport planners have floated proposals to extend the airport's runways further into San Francisco Bay in order to accommodate 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.
History
The airport was first opened on May 7, 1927 on 150 acres of cow pasture. Starting in 1935, Pan American World Airways used the facility as the terminal for its "China Clipper" flying boat service across the Pacific Ocean. Domestic flights did not begin en masse until World War II, when Oakland International Airport was taken over by the military and its passenger flights were moved to San Francisco.
After the war, United Airlines took up residence at SFO, using the Pan Am terminal for its flights to Hawaii and other U.S. cities. In 1954, the airport's Central Passenger Terminal opened. Jet service to SFO began in the late 1950s: United built a large maintenance facility at San Francisco for its new Douglas DC-8s. In 1974, a new terminal was built for domestic flights, and the CPT became an international terminal.
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. Passengers can now board trains directly at the airport terminal bound for San Francisco or points in the East Bay. BART trains also offer a quick trip to the nearby Millbrae, where passengers can board Caltrain commuter rail trains bound for San Jose and the Peninsula.
Disasters
On January 31, 2000, Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which was headed on a Puerto Vallarta, Mexico-San Francisco International Airport-Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Washington (near Seattle) route, crashed into the Pacific Ocean, killing everyone on board.
One of the four hijacked airplanes that crashed on September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93, was headed to San Francisco International Airport from Newark International Airport (now Newark Liberty International Airport). The airport had previously been targeted by Project Bojinka, a failed terrorist plot, in 1995.
Terminals
Terminal 1
Rotunda A (gates 1-17)
- AirTran (Atlanta)
- Midwest Airlines (Milwaukee)
- US Airways (Charlotte, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh)
Boarding Area B (gates 20-36)
- Air Canada (Toronto)
- Alaska Airlines (Palm Springs, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver)
- America West Airlines (Boston, Las Vegas, New York JFK, Phoenix)
- American Trans Air (Chicago Midway, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Lihue, Maui)
- Continental Airlines (Cleveland, Houston Bush, Newark)
- Frontier Airlines (Denver)
Boarding Area C (gates 40-48)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, Cincinnati, Dallas/Fort Worth, Salt Lake City)
- Hawaiian Airlines (Honolulu)
- Northwest Airlines (Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul)
Terminal 2
Terminal 2, the 1954 international terminal, was closed in 2000 and is currently being renovated. It serves as a walkway between Terminal 1 and Terminal 3.
Terminal 3
Boarding Area E (gates 60-67)
- American Airlines (Boston, Chicago O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Honolulu, Kahului, Los Angeles, Miami, New York JFK, St. Louis)
Boarding Area F (gates 68-90)
- Ted (Cabo San Lucas, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Puerto Vallarta)
- United Airlines (Anchorage, Baltimore/Washington, Boston, Burbank, Chicago O'Hare, Denver, Honolulu, Kona, Las Vegas, Lihue, Los Angeles, Maui, New Orleans, New York JFK, Newark, Orange County, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, Seattle/Tacoma, Vancouver, Washington Dulles)
- United Express/Skywest (Bakersfield, Boise, Burbank, Chico, Eugene, Eureka, Fresno, Medford, Modesto, Monterey, Redding, Redmond/Bend, Reno, Sacramento, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara)
International Terminal
SFO's international terminal is the largest international terminal in North America, and the largest building in the world built on base isolators to protect against earthquakes. The boarding area has two levels, with shops and restaurants on the upper level and departure lounges on the lower level.
Boarding Area A
- Air France (Paris de Gaulle)
- Alaska Airlines (Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Los Cabos, Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta)
- American Trans Air (Cancun)
- British Airways (London Heathrow)
- Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong)
- China Airlines (Taipei)
- Emirates (starting January 1, 2005)
- Japan Airlines (Tokyo Narita)
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- Korean Air (Seoul Incheon)
- Northwest Airlines (Tokyo Narita)
- Philippine Airlines (Manila)
- TACA (San Jose, Costa Rica)
- Virgin Atlantic (London Heathrow)
Boarding Area G
- Air China (Beijing)
- Air New Zealand (Auckland)
- All Nippon Airways (Tokyo Narita)
- Asiana Airlines (Seoul Incheon)
- EVA Air (Taipei)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)
- Mexicana (Mexico City, Morelia)
- Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
- United Airlines (Bangkok, Beijing, London Heathrow, Mexico City, Osaka, Seoul Incheon, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo Narita)