AirTrain

AirTrain
Overview
Type	People mover
Locale	San Francisco International Airport
Termini	Garage A Rental Car Center
Stations	9
Services	2
Daily ridership	123,000
Operation
Opened	February 24, 2003
Owner	San Francisco Airports Commission
Operator(s)	San Francisco Airports Commission
Character	Serves non-sterile airport traffic
Rolling stock	38 Bombardier Innovia APM 100 vehicles
Technical
Line length	6 mi (10 km)
Highest elevation	Elevated
Route map Legend Domestic Terminal 2 Domestic Terminal 3 Domestic Terminal 1 International Terminal G International Terminal A Garage G & BART Garage A West Field Road Rental Car Center Tail track Millbrae Station(BART) Transfer to/from Caltrain This route map:  view talk edit

AirTrain is a fully automated people mover at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The system was built by Bombardier at a cost of US $430 million, and opened on February 24, 2003. The trains operate 24 hours a day on two separate lines, covering a total of six miles (10 kilometres).

The entire AirTrain fleet is wheelchair accessible and allows rented moving carts onboard. The system is composed of 38 Innovia APM 100 cars built by Bombardier of Montreal, Canada. People movers using Innovia APM 100 cars can also be found at Tampa, Denver, Atlanta, Seattle-Tacoma, Houston, and Madrid International Airports.

Lines and stations

System map inside AirTrain car

AirTrain interior

AirTrain operates on two lines—Red Line and Blue Line—both of which run every 2½ minutes. The Red Line travels in a clockwise loop, beginning with Garage G station and ending with Garage A station, which takes about 9 minutes to complete. The Blue Line travels in a counterclockwise loop, serving the same stations in reverse order, and also proceeding to West Field Road and the Rental Car Center, which takes 19 minutes for a round trip.

Alternatively, passengers may walk around the terminal loop instead of riding AirTrain, which takes about 25 minutes by foot; however, passengers must ride AirTrain to access the Rental Car Center.

AirTrain does not provide access to SFO's long-term parking garage and lots; instead, passengers must take a free shuttle bus between the airport terminals and the long-term parking areas. The end of the track past the Rental Car Center station is only about six hundred yards away from the airport's long-term parking garage, and the system may be extended to the garage in the future if the funds necessary for construction can be raised.^[1]

SFO's AirTrain is free of charge.

The AirTrain stations at the International Terminal are located one level above ticketing, at both ends of the main hall. Stations at Terminals 1, 2, and 3 are located on level 5 of the domestic parking garage.

There is a $20 fee for arriving at SFO car rental desks via AirTrain^[2]

See also

• Airport rail link
• AirTrain JFK

References