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L' aéroport international de San Francisco est un des plus grands aéroports américains et le 2e en Californie après celui de Los Angeles.
Il est situé à 21 km au sud de San Francisco, dans le comté de San Mateo, tout près de villes de Millbrae et de San Bruno. C'est une plateforme de correspondance (hub) pour United Airlines et il deviendra en 2005 le hub principal de Virgin America.
C'est un des trois principaux aéroports dans la région de la baie de San Francisco, avec ceux d'Oakland et de San Jose. En raison de la météo, il arrive qu'une seule piste seulement soit utilisable.
Le code IATA est SFO (probablement parce que c'était initialement l'aéroport de S(an) F(rancisco) et d'O(akland)..
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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 expanded continuously through the decades. Most recently, a new $1 billion international terminal opened in December 2000, and an extension of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system to the airport opened on 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 and SamTrans bus service bound for the Penisula. In 2004, the AirTrain shuttle system opened, conveying passengers between terminals, parking lots, the BART station, and the rental car center on small automatic trains.
On January 31, 2000, Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which was headed on a Puerto Vallarta-San Francisco-Seattle-Tacoma 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 from Newark International Airport. SFO had previously been targeted by Project Bojinka, a failed terrorist plot, in 1995.
(anciennement le South Terminal)
Rotunda A will be torn down upon completion of Terminal 2 renovation. Removing this concourse will free up space for new gates in Internation Terminal A's east-facing side.
Formally known as the International Terminal before the the new international terminal opened, the 1954 terminal was closed in 2000 and is currently being renovated. It will reopen as a domestic terminal, replacing Rotunda A. It currently serves as a walkway between Terminal 1 and Terminal 3. SFO Medical Clinic is located on the Arrivals/Baggage Claim level (downstairs floor).
(auparavant le North Terminal)
Le terminal international de SFO est le plus grand terminal en Amérique du Nord et le plus grand bâtiment dans le monde construit sur une isolation de la base pour le protéger des tremblement de terre.
The boarding area has two levels, with shops and restaurants on the upper level and departure lounges on the lower level.
For lack of space, the terminal was constructed on top of the airport's main access road at enormous expense; the advantage of this location was that it completed a continuous « ring » of terminals around the airport's main loading/unloading loop. The disadvantage was that the terminal required its own elaborate set of ramps to connect it with Highway 101.
Note that international gates have letter prefixes A and G for their respective boarding areas. The prefix is most likely used to avoid confusion between international's Boarding Area A and domestic's Rotunda A. The two areas are adjacent to each other. The letters might be dropped when Rotunda A is torn down.
(south side, opposite Boarding Area G, next to Rotunda A)
(north side, opposite Boarding Area A, next to Boarding Area F)
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