San Francisco International Airport facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
San Francisco International Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | City & County of San Francisco | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | San Francisco Airport Commission | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | San Francisco | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | San Mateo County (unincorporated) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 13 ft / 4 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | FlySFO.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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San Francisco International Airport (IATA: SFO, ICAO: KSFO, FAA LID: SFO) is the airport which serves San Francisco, California. It is 13 miles (21 km) south of downtown San Francisco. It is near Millbrae and San Bruno in unincorporated San Mateo County.
Airlines
The following airlines go to San Francisco International Airport:
- Aer Lingus
- Aeroméxico
- Air Berlin (starts May 6)
- Air Canada
- Air China
- Air France
- Air India
- Air New Zealand
- Alaska Airlines
- All Nippon Airways
- American Airlines
- Asiana Airlines
- Avianca
- British Airways
- Cathay Pacific
- China Airlines
- China Eastern Airlines
- China Southern Airlines
- Copa Airlines
- Delta Air Lines
- Emirates
- Etihad Airways
- EVA Air
- Fiji Airways (starts June 16)
- Frontier Airlines
- Hawaiian Airlines
- Japan Airlines
- JetBlue Airways
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
- Korean Air
- Lufthansa
- Philippine Airlines
- Qantas Airways
- SAS
- Singapore Airlines
- Southwest Airlines
- Sun Country Airlines
- Swiss International Air Lines
- Turkish Airlines
- United Airlines (hub)
- Virgin America (hub)
- Virgin Atlantic Airways (starts March 28)
- WestJet (seasonal)
- WOW Air (starts June 10)
- XL Airways France (seasonal)
Images for kids
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Mills Field, San Francisco Airport (c. 1930s)
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A Qantas Boeing 747-400 and United Airlines Airbus A320 at SFO, 2018
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Opening gala at the Central Passenger Terminal on August 27, 1954
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Southwest Airways C-47 landing at SFO in 1948
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San Francisco International Airport at night
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San Francisco International Terminal at night
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New control tower (photographed in 2018)
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Airside connector between International Terminal and Terminal 3
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Artwork memorializing gay rights activist and former San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk (1930–1978)
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Harvey Milk Terminal 1 Community Day, July 2019
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Interior of Terminal 2, with Janet Echelman's Every Beating Second installation
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Terminal 3 interior
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The International Terminal
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Interior of the International Terminal check-in area
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"On The Radio" exhibition in Terminal 3, 2018
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San Francisco International Airport passenger destinations
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BART train at SFO station in 2020
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Bird's-eye view of the airport. A spaghetti junction connects the passenger terminal roads to US Route 101.
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JAL002 ditched in shallow water short of SFO
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The wreckage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 after it crashed while landing on July 6, 2013
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See also
In Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de San Francisco para niños
