San Francisco International Airport

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The San Francisco International Airport ( IATA: SFO, ICAO: KSFO ) is the international commercial airport in the Californian city of San Francisco. The operated by the San Francisco Airport Commission Airport with over 39 million passengers in 2010, the U.S. ninth-busiest airport, and according to the Los Angeles Airport is the second largest on the West Coast. On a global scale it is in 2012 ranked 22 SFO serves as a hub for United Airlines and Virgin America.

Terminal building

The San Francisco airport has four terminals with a total of eight annularly arranged areas (A to G). The letters begin in the southwest south of the access roads with A and are counterclockwise about the South ( B), South East ( C) North East ( D and E) to the northwest (F and G), respectively. The terminal numbering starts at 1 and ends at B with F with 3 Although the regions G and A together form the fourth terminal, but are in the plan not referred to as Terminal 4 but as " International Terminal " or " Main Hall ". The terminals 1 to 3 are combined into "Domestic " and have inside the ring, the "Domestic Garage ". The " International Garage " located to the right and left of the access roads west of the " International Terminal ":

The former South Terminal (German South Terminal ) called building consists of the areas B and C.

The 1954 opened former Central Terminal (German Central Terminal) with the domain D was closed in 2000 and served temporarily as an office and link building. Until April 2011, the terminal was extensively modernized and extended and has since then served again as a terminal building with a total of 14 gates that share American Airlines and Virgin America. Although it was originally called Central, it is not in the center of the ring but in the east compared to the access roads.

This building was formerly referred to as the North Terminal (German North Terminal ) and consists of the fields E and F. It is mainly used by United Airlines.

Opened in 2000, international terminal replaced the former Central Terminal as a terminal building and is composed of the regions A and G, which complete the terminal ring. Here most airlines the airline alliances Star Alliance, SkyTeam and oneworld are handled, including the flights of Lufthansa. Six of the passenger boarding bridges this terminal, which spans the terminals of the other access routes for reasons of space and the "Ring" also completed structurally, are designed for the Airbus A380.

Airlines and destinations

San Francisco is one of the most important national and international destinations on the west coast of the United States and is served by numerous airlines, including New York, Chicago, Tokyo, London and Dubai. Largest airlines on site are United Airlines and Virgin America, which each operate a base here. From the German-speaking world is San Francisco by Lufthansa from Frankfurt ( since May 2011 with the Airbus A380) and Munich (Airbus 340-600 ), Air Berlin from Dusseldorf seasonal (Airbus 330-200 ) and Swiss from Zurich (Airbus A340- 300) served. United Airlines flies beyond also twice a day to Frankfurt (Boeing 747-400 ).

Location and Transport

The airport is located 21 kilometers south of downtown San Francisco in a backfill area of ​​the bay of San Francisco.

  • Car: At the airport leads the U.S. Highway 101 over.
  • Railway: Since 22 June 2003, the high-speed rail BART was extended up to the international terminal. So it is possible that downtown San Francisco and different places ( for example, Oakland ) on the east coast of the Bay to be reached directly. Trains also stop at the nearby station Millbrae, where the transit traffic to the Caltrain commuter trains to San Jose and to San Francisco is. SamTrans buses tap into the rest of the peninsula.

Since 2003, the AirTrain automated people mover. The red line serves a roundabout between the new BART station and all terminals, while the blue line reaches out on something and the closer terminal parking and the Car Rental Center, that is, moves to the offices of the car rental. They complain that the huge, lying further out long -term parking spaces are not even approached.

Accident in 2013

On July 6, 2013, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 made ​​, a Boeing 777-200 from Seoul, a crash landing when landing on runway 28L. There were three dead and 181 injured.

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