San Francisco International Airport

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San Francisco International
SFO Logo.svg
Aerial view of San Francisco International Airport 2010.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code KSFO
IATA code SFO
Coordinates

37 ° 37'8 "  N , 122 ° 22'30"  W Coordinates: 37 ° 37'8 "  N , 122 ° 22'30"  W.
Height above MSL 4 m (13  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 13 miles south of San Francisco
Street US 101 / I-280 / I-380
Local transport Bus / BART
Basic data
opening June 6, 1927
operator San Francisco Airports Commission
surface 2093 ha
Terminals 4th
Passengers 57,793,313 (2018)
Air freight 571,355 t (2018)
Flight
movements 		470,164 (2018)
Employees 42,828 (2017)
Runways
01L / 19R 2332 m × 61 m asphalt
01R / 19L 2637 m × 61 m asphalt
10L / 28R 3618 m × 61 m asphalt
10R / 28L 3469 m × 61 m asphalt

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Airport layout

The San Francisco International Airport ( IATA : SFO , ICAO : KSFO ) is the international passenger airport of the Californian metropolis San Francisco . The airport, operated by the San Francisco Airports Commission , is the seventh largest airport in the USA with 57,793,313 passengers in 2018 and the second largest on the west coast after Los Angeles International Airport . In a global comparison , it ranks 25th in 2018. SFO serves as a hub for Alaska Airlines and United Airlines .

Location and transport links

The airport is located 13 miles south of downtown San Francisco in a raised area of ​​the San Francisco Bay .

  • Car : US Highway 101 passes directly at the airport .
  • Rail : Since June 22, 2003, the BART rapid transit railway has been extended to the international terminal. This makes it possible to reach downtown San Francisco and various places (for example Oakland ) on the east coast of the Bay without changing trains. Trains stop at the nearby station Millbrae where a transfer possibility to the Caltrain - local trains to San Jose and to San Francisco is. SamTrans buses open up the rest of the peninsula .

The automatic people mover AirTrain has been around since 2003 . The red line serves a roundabout between the new BART station and all terminals, while the blue line extends a little further and the closer terminal parking spaces and the Car Rental Center, i.e. H. drives to the branches of the car rental company . It is criticized that the huge long-term parking spaces further out are not approached.

Terminal building

The San Francisco International Airport has four terminals with a total of eight areas ( A to G ) arranged in a ring . The letters begin in the southwest south of the access roads with A and are arranged counterclockwise across south ( B ), southeast ( C ), northeast ( D and E ) to northwest ( F and G ). The terminal numbering starts with B with 1 and ends with F with 3. Although areas G and A together form the fourth terminal, they are not referred to as Terminal 4 in the plan , but as “International Terminal” or “Main Hall”. Terminals 1 to 3 are combined into "Domestic" and have the "Domestic Garage" inside the ring. The "International Garage" is located to the right and left of the access roads west of the "International Terminal":

Terminal 1

The former South terminal (dt. South terminal ) said building consists of the sections B and C .

Terminal 2

The 1954 opened former Central Terminal (dt. Central Terminal ) with the region D was closed in 2000 and served temporarily as an office and link building. The terminal was extensively modernized and expanded by April 2011 and has since served as a handling building with a total of 14 gates shared by American Airlines and Virgin America . Although it was originally called Central , it is not in the middle of the ring, but in the east opposite the access roads. In 2014, indoo.rs, in cooperation with The Lighthouse, installed around 500 Bluetooth beacons in Terminal 2 for better orientation for the blind and visually impaired. This is intended to facilitate the navigation of visitors in the terminal using the voice output in an app.

Terminal 3

This building was formerly the North Terminal (dt. North Terminal called) and consists of the areas E and F . It is mainly used by United Airlines .

The International Terminal

International Terminal

The international terminal, opened in 2000, replaced the former Central Terminal as a handling building and consists of areas A and G , which complete the terminal ring. This is where most of the airlines are airline alliances Star Alliance , SkyTeam and oneworld handled, including the flights of Lufthansa . Six of the passenger boarding bridges at this terminal, which for reasons of space spans the access routes to the other terminals and also complements the “ring”, are designed for the Airbus A380 .

Airlines and Destinations

A Boeing 747 on approach for landing

San Francisco International Airport is served by a total of 53 airlines . The largest local airlines are United Airlines with a market share of 45 percent and Alaska Airlines with a market share of 13 percent. Both airlines use the airport as a hub . In addition, Delta Air Lines with eight percent, American Airlines with eight percent and Southwest Airlines with seven percent have larger market shares in the number of passengers. Until the takeover by Alaska Air Lines, San Francisco International Airport served as the home airport of the airline Virgin America .

San Francisco is one of the most important national and international destinations on the west coast of the USA and is connected to numerous metropolises, including New York , Chicago , Tokyo , London and Dubai . From the German-speaking area, Lufthansa flies to San Francisco from Frankfurt am Main (since May 2011 with the Airbus A380 ) and Munich (seasonally also with the Airbus A380) and Swiss from Zurich . United Airlines also flies to Frankfurt am Main and Munich.

Traffic figures

Source: San Francisco International Airport
Source: San Francisco International Airport
San Francisco International Airport traffic figures 1998-2018
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons ) Airmail (tons) Aircraft movements
(with military)
National International total
2018 43.481.605 14,218,828 57,793,313 500,081 71,274 470.164
2017 42,389,578 13,425,328 55.832.518 491.162 70,643 460,343
2016 40,729,913 12,366,312 53.110.671 420.094 63.136 450,388
2015 38,805,645 11.243.035 50,067,094 389.934 69,533 429.815
2014 36,804,461 10,269,701 47.155.100 349,585 51.030 431,633
2013 35.135.994 9,743,762 45,011,764 325,782 38.012 421,400
2012 34,776,416 9,546,145 44.477.209 337.356 43,434 424,566
2011 31,796,888 9,013,253 41,045,431 340,766 41,253 403,564
2010 30.268.176 8,848,588 39.391.234 384.179 42,545 387.248
2009 28.903.104 8,321,146 37,453,634 356.266 51,836 379.751
2008 28.103.031 8,963,784 37,402,541 429.912 62,238 387.710
2007 26,354,365 8,962,965 35,790,835 503,899 59,034 379,500
2006 24,595,770 8,488,758 33,581,412 529.303 65,554 359.201
2005 24,747,541 8,054,822 33,395,737 520.386 70.170 352,871
2004 24,594,752 7,562,076 32,744,186 489.776 73.099 353.231
2003 22.091.234 6,695,151 29,313,271 486.670 90.394 334,468
2002 23,463,770 7,277,890 31,450,168 506.083 89,874 351.453
2001 26,414,419 7,540,801 34,643,312 516.184 118,959 387,594
2000 32.236.666 8.051.166 41,048,996 695.259 176.994 429.222
1999 32,306,264 7,209,544 40.330.618 655.409 186,805 438,685
1998 32,628,365 6,698,270 40.101.387 598,580 173.454 432.046
  1. ↑ The total number of passengers includes passengers who landed and departed on the same aircraft and therefore differs from the sum of the national and international passenger numbers.

Busiest routes

Busiest national routes by airports from San Francisco (2018)
rank city Passengers airline
01 Los Angeles , California 1,983,410 Alaska , American , Delta , Southwest , United
02 Seattle / Tacoma , Washington 1,158,110 Alaska, Delta, United
03 Chicago-O'Hare , Illinois 1,105,400 Alaska, American, Frontier , United
04th New York – JFK , New York 1,029,370 Alaska, American, Delta, JetBlue
05 Newark , New Jersey 0.966.800 Alaska, United
06th Las Vegas , Nevada 0.929.270 Alaska, Frontier, Southwest, United
07th San Diego , California 0.928.070 Alaska, Southwest, United
08th Denver , Colorado 0.913.940 Frontier, Southwest, United
09 Boston , Massachusetts 0.749,300 Alaska, Delta, JetBlue, United
10 Portland , Oregon 0.726.710 Alaska, Southwest, Sun Country , United
Main national routes by metropolitan areas (2018)
rank region Airports Share of total
national seating capacity		 Weekly flights
01 los Angeles BUR , LAX , LGB , ONT , SNA 14.5% 587
02 new York EEA , JFK 08.8% 254
03 Hawaii HNL , KOA , LIH , OGG 05.7% 133
04th Chicago MDW , ORD 05.5% 151
05 Seattle SEA 05.4% 188
06th San Diego SAN 04.6% 154
07th Las Vegas READ 04.6% 152
08th Denver THE 04.2% 117
09 Portland PDX 03.7% 120
10 Baltimore-Washington BWI , DCA , IAD 03.4% 096
Main international routes by country (2018)
rank country Airports Share of total
international seating capacity		 Weekly flights
01 People's Republic of China CAN , CTU , HKG , PEK , PVG , WUH 15.8% 086
02 Canada YEG , YUL , YVR , YYC , YYJ , YYZ 12.5% 148
03 Mexico CUN , GDL , MEX , PVR , SJD 9.3% 97
04th United Kingdom LHR 08.1% 044
05 Republic of China TPE 07.3% 034
06th Germany FRA , MUC 06.2% 029
07th Japan HND , KIX , NRT 05.6% 034
08th South Korea ICN 04.9% 028
09 France CDG 03.9% 019th
10 Australia MEL , SYD 02.6% 014th

Incidents

  • On September 12, 1951, crashed Boeing 377 of United Air Lines ( air vehicle registration N31230 ) in the San Francisco Bay. One engine had been shut down on the test flight; the machine crashed on approach to the San Francisco airport due to a stall from a height of 100 meters. All three crew members on board were killed.
  • On February 3, 1963, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation of Slick Airways (N9740Z) collided with the approach lights while approaching San Francisco Airport, 360 meters from the runway, and crashed next to the runway. The cause was the continuation of the approach below the prescribed decision height . Of the 8 occupants, 2 crew members and 2 passengers were killed.

See also

Web links

Commons : San Francisco International Airport  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of SFO. FlySFO.com, accessed February 4, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Air Traffic Statistics. FlySFO.com, accessed June 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Airport Economic Impact. FlySFO.com, accessed July 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ 2018 Airport Traffic Report. PANYNJ.gov , accessed June 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ SFO's Terminal 2 set to open in April , abclocal.go.com (English), February 10, 2011
  6. ↑ San Francisco Airport receives guidance system for the blind via Bluetooth , heise.de, August 4, 2014
  7. ↑ SFO says it's ready for a 555-person plane arriving in 2006 , sfgate.com (English), July 15, 2004
  8. ^ Airlines at SFO. FlySFO.com, accessed June 16, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Airports and terminal maps. United.com , accessed June 16, 2019 .
  10. ^ Network. Newsroom.AlaskaAir.com , March 2019, accessed June 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b c SFO Fact Sheet. FlySFO.com, accessed June 16, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Corporate Facts. VirginAmerica.com , accessed June 16, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Lufthansa: San Francisco will be the next A380 destination. FlugRevue.de , January 22, 2011, accessed on June 16, 2019 (German).
  14. ↑ Flights with the Airbus A380-800. Lufthansa .com, accessed on June 16, 2019 (German).
  15. ↑ a b Destinations. IFlyA380.com , accessed June 16, 2019 .
  16. ↑ A380 fleet comes to Munich: That is planned at the airport. tz .de, May 20, 2019, accessed on June 16, 2019 (German).
  17. ↑ a b Flight Schedules. Timetables. OAG .com, accessed on June 16, 2019 .
  18. ^ San Francisco, CA: San Francisco International (SFO). Transtats.BTS.gov , accessed June 16, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 53 (English), June 1994, pp. 94/53.
  20. ↑ Accident Report B-377 N31230 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 27 August 2017th
  21. ↑ accident report L-1049H N9740Z , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 22 December of 2019.
  22. ↑ accident report L-1049H N6915C , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 22 December of 2019.