By Air, San Francisco

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Ever since Delta Airlines merged with Delta Airlines and created the world's 2nd Largest Airline in 2009 (the largest is the Continental-United Airlines Merger), Delta became my new favorite as it has absorbed my Northwest World Perks card into the Delta Sky Miles and they now have no expiry air miles. I now use mostly delta airlines on travels around domestic and interational routes. Delta and its subsidiaries operate over 4,000 flights every day. The airline's main hub at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the world's largest (overtaking O hare Airport in Chicago), and since 1999 the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic (88 million passengers per year) and number of landings and take-offs largely due to Delta's presence.

Jet Blue was great. Effecient, clean, friendly, and cheap.
Absolutely nothing to complain about. Will definatley fly them again. It was about $100 RT from Long Beach to Oakland, and getting from Oakland to SF was very inexpensive and easy. Check out their lamenated Pilates cards that are in the seat pocket along with the inflight magazine. Very progressive with witty commentary copy.

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My airline of choice is always American Airlines. I travel to San Francisco at least 5 times a year (more if I am doing an MR), and American Airlines offers me a variety of flight times to suite me. I enjoy flying on the 757 with their three class cabin which allows me to use my evips especially during red-eyes.

American Airlines offers on some of it's flights to SF, GOGO, an inflight internet service which is quite handy if you need to catch up on some work or just want to stay connected. The flight from NYC to San Franciso varies and can be anywhere from 5.5 hours to 6.5 hours depending on the winds.

My flights to San Francisco are always quite pleasant and gives me the opportunity to catch up on some personal stuff as well as work related stuff without being interrupted.

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American Airlines is our airline of choice when travelling to San Francisco. We often find ourselves in SF to visit family or when we find a good MR fare. Our most recent trips to SFO were in January and February 2011 for some Mileage Runs.

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Ever since they connected SFO to the BART I have only used SFO to visit the city. Only a short ride now to the city this airport's traffic has increased since being connected. A great move. It is located south of the city on the penninsula.

SFO is a nice airport with good food and shopping options. My wife and I have enjoyed some really good food in their food court area located by the United terminal. There is also a great bookstore with a nice Travel section.

The San Francisco International airport (SFO) is located 20km south of San Francisco, near the junction of 101 and 380 highways. It serves many flights per day, domestic and international (from every corner on earth) and it is famous of several delays especially because of the weather (the fog sometimes doesn’t allow any flight above the city).

The airport is big enough and has 4 terminals connected to each other with CalTrain. I get bored anyway in every airport but I have to admit that it’s a modern building with some nice corners (paintings on walls etc). Of course, there are many restaurants and shops to spend some time while you wait for your flight. I noticed several wifi spots but they are not for free. Many signs will guide you to what you are looking for (check in, gates, exit, luggages, train to the city etc). Their official site has many useful information about the airport, maps, arrivals/departures etc

We used British Airways, but when you have to fly for 4 hours from Athens to London and then 11 more hours to SF you get sick of the flight. Of course, if we could fly first class it would be different but in these packed seats (31in seat pitch is a joke) we just wanted the trip to end soon. British provided us with lunch and dinner along the way and I watched some movies on the front seat screen but after 4-5 hours all the passengers were just walking around the aisles of the plane.

The customs in San Francisco took some time but not that much as in New York.

Alternative airport is the Oakland Airport, across the San Francisco bay, check it too because some low far companies use this one for flights to San Francisco and has some great offers, especially for domestic flights.

San Francisco International Airport is one of my favorite airports in the US. The airport is clean and quite easy to navigate. One of the things I really like about this airport is that if you have a pretty long lay-over you can easily use the time to get something to eat at the many restaurants, wander around the bookstore or shop at one of the many electronic or gift shops.

If you are going into San Francisco, transportation is quite easy. The Airtrain will take you to the BART where you can enjoy a quite 30 minute ride to downtown SF. If you are going to San Jose, you can hope on the CALTRAIN.

I've never encounterd long security lines at SFO which is a good thing. Since SFO is an international airport there are plenty of flights from SFO across the Pacific to places like Australia and Asia.

For more information about the airport, check out their website.

One of the great things about SFO is that it is easily accessible by public transportation (maninly the B.A.R.T.) to the peninsula and the south bay areas.

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Northwest primarily operates a hub and spoke route system with hubs in Amsterdam, Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Tokyo. Northwest is the world's sixth largest airline in terms of domestic and international scheduled passenger miles flown and the U.S.'s sixth largest airline in terms of domestic passenger miles flown. In addition to operating one of the largest domestic route networks in the U.S., Northwest carries more passengers across the Pacific Ocean than any other U.S. carrier hence it is a favorite of asians like me for transpacific flights and the easy accruage of air mileage in its Worldperks program but since october 1, 2009 it has merged with delta air and now my worldperks is now a delta skymiles.