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San Francisco International Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) is a major international Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) located 13 miles (21 km) south of San Francisco, California, adjacent to the cities of Millbrae and San Bruno in unincorporated San Mateo County. The Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) has flights to destinations throughout the Americas and is a major gateway to Europe, Asia, and Australasia.

San Francisco is the largest Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) in the San Francisco Bay Area. As of 2005, San Francisco International Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) is the fourteenth largest in the United States[1] and the twenty-third largest Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) in the world,[2] in terms of passengers. It is a major hub of United Airlines, and is expected to become the main hub of Virgin America when the airline begins operations in 2006.

The Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) enjoys a connection to an adjacent freeway, U.S. Route 101, as well as having its own Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station adjoining one of its terminals. Interstate 380 intersects Highway 101 north of the Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation), providing further connections to the region.

San Francisco Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) has numerous passenger amenities, including a wide range of food and drink establishments, shopping, baggage storage, public showers, a medical clinic, and assistance for lost or stranded travelers and military personnel. The Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) hosts the Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum, the San Francisco Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) Commission Aviation Library, and both permanent and temporary art exhibitions in several places in the terminals. Public Wi-Fi is available throughout most of the terminal area, provided by T-Mobile for a fee.[3]

History
The Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) was first opened on May 7, 1927 on 150 acres (607,000 m²) of cow pasture. The land was leased from prominent local landowner Ogden L. Mills, and was named Mills Field Municipal Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation). It remained Mills Field until 1931, when it was renamed San Francisco Municipal Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation). "Municipal" was replaced by "International" in 1955.

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, however, until World War II, when Oakland International Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) was taken over by the military and its passenger flights were moved to San Francisco.[4]

After the war, United Airlines took up residence at San Francisco Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation), using the Pan Am terminal for its flights to Hawaii and other U.S. cities. In 1954, the Airport's (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) Central Passenger Terminal opened for passenger service.[5] Jet service to San Francisco Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) began in the late 1950s: United built a large maintenance facility at San Francisco for its new Douglas DC-8s. In July 1959 the first jetway bridge installed in the United States. In 1974, a new terminal was built for domestic flights, and the CPT became an international terminal (known today as Terminal 2).

During the economic boom of the 1990s and the dot-com boom, San Francisco Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) became the 6th busiest international Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) in the world. However, since 2001, when the economic boom times ended, San Francisco Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) has fallen back out of the top twenty.[2]

San Francisco Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) has expanded continuously through the decades. Most recently, a new $1 billion international terminal opened in December 2000, replacing Terminal 2 as the international terminal.[5] This terminal contains a world-class aviation library and museum.[6] An extension of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system to the Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) opened on June 22, 2003, allowing passengers to board trains directly at the Airport's (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) international terminal bound for San Francisco or points in the East Bay.[7] BART trains also offer a quick trip to the nearby Millbrae Station, where passengers can board Caltrain commuter rail trains bound for San Jose and the Peninsula and SamTrans bus service bound for the Peninsula. In 2003, the AirTrain transportation system opened, conveying passengers between terminals, parking lots, the BART station, and the rental car center on small automatic trains.


San Francisco International Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) at night It is not uncommon for San Francisco Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) to experience significant delays in adverse weather, when only one of the Airport's (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) four runways can be used a time. Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) planners have floated proposals to extend the Airport's (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) runways further into San Francisco Bay in order to accommodate the next generation of super-jumbo aircraft. In order to expand further into the bay, the Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) would be required by law to restore bay land elsewhere in the Bay Area to offset the fill. Such proposals have nevertheless met resistance with environmental groups, fearing damage to the habitat of animals living near the Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) and bay water quality.

As such, San Francisco Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) suffers from loss of service as many airlines, especially low-cost carriers such as Southwest Airlines, JetBlue Airways, and ATA Airlines increasingly shift service to the other two major Bay Area Airports (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation), Oakland and San Jose, which continue to expand for the time being. However, San Francisco Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) has superior land connections compared to Oakland and San Jose, being directly connected to U.S. Route 101, Interstate 380, and the BART system.

However, recovery at San Francisco Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) has been evident. Icelandair commenced San Francisco-Reykjavík service on May 18, 2005, and Spirit Airlines began daily service to Detroit on May 25, 2006. In addition, Qantas began service from Sydney in March 2006, and began service to Vancouver on June 14, 2006. United Airlines will expand service to Seoul from seasonal to year-round in October 2006, and, starting April 1, 2007, reinstate non-stop service to Taipei and add more flights to Hong Kong.[8] United Airlines has also applied for flights from San Francisco Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) to Guangzhou, China.[9] In addition, San Francisco Airport (contact us for your San Francisco airport transportation) will be the base of operations for Virgin America when the airline begins operations in late 2006.

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