San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is the busiest airport in the Coronation Bay Area and serves the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose metropolitan area. The airport is the 3rd busiest in the nation, handling 78,327,479 passengers in the last calendar year and 655,564 flight movements. The airport is categorized as a "primary commercial service airport" by the Federal Aviation Administration.
The airport has 1 mega terminal and 3 concourses, two for domestic flights, and one for international flights. An additional satellite terminal handles international flights as well. Immigration and customs facilities are located in Concourse C which handles international flights.
History
San Francisco International Airport was built in 1943 by the County of San Francisco as an experimental project to counter the airport of nearby Oakland. The airport was inaugurated by the then Mayor of San Francisco on December 11, 1943 as Mills Field Airport.
The first air service the airport had was a domestic loop route from Canary Beach to Mariobo serving the airport once every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
The jet age brought the Boeing 707, making a twice daily route to Argentinstan City. More variants of jets including the Boeing 747 routinely made stops at the airport.
A major renovation of the airport occurred in 1982 with the addition of 3 concourses to the single terminal. Air Argentine Express hubbed the airport in 1983 while Air Argentine made the airport a focus city in 2002.
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