San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is one of the USA’s busiest airports, managing both domestic flights and international links for the Europe, and Latin America. The airport was first opened on May 7, 1927 on 150 acres of piece of land that was chartered from famous local landowner Ogden L. Mills, and in relation to that it was named Mills Field Municipal Airport. Its name remained Mills Field until 1931, after that it was renamed as San Francisco Municipal Airport, later the municipal was replaced with International somewhere around 1955.
The airport serves the cosmopolitan city of San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and the wider Bay Area. It is the biggest airport in the Bay Area, and is the second busiest airport in the state of California. As of 2009, San Francisco International Airport is the tenth largest in the United States and the twentieth largest airport in the world, in terms of passengers.
There are four terminals within SFO that are terminal 1, 2, 3 and international terminal which is a very much liked one. Three of the terminals serve for domestic flights and Canada bound flights while international terminal is off course catering the international flights. There are seven concourses that work on each of these terminals. Boarding area A and G are used in international terminal to handle international flights. Terminal 1 and 3 having boarding areas B & C and E & F respectively handle domestic and Canada bound flights. While, the terminal 2 with boarding area D, have been undergoing some renovation work.
SFO Airport recommends a extensive array of facilities and services, including a variety of restaurants, shops, a business center, wireless Internet access, disabled facilities and banking services,. There are few other specialties available too over San Francisco Airport that are an aquarium, aviation library and museum, manifestation room, children’s play area. An interior transportation system, AirTrain, is used to link all the different parts of the airport. Another rail service called Metro Rail service is used to travel between airport, the Bay area and the city.
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