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In Salt Lake City I recently saw on the local news that our airport recommended arriving 3 hours early for your flight. At the end of the report the news-caster

In Salt Lake City I recently saw on the local news that our airport recommended arriving 3 hours early for your flight. At the end of the report the news-caster said that SLC airport had below average wait times, as if that was suppose to make me feel better. It didn't. "Things are bad here, but the good news is it's worse everywhere else." \s

Swizec 10y ago
At SFO you can go from entrance to on-plane in 40 minutes for a transatlantic flight. I like SFO.
- DrScump 10y ago
  At SFO, the trick is getting from your origin elsewhere in the Bay Area to the entrance in the first place.
  - tlrobinson 10y ago
    15 minutes without traffic or 30 minutes with traffic from SF to SFO isn't bad at all. Here's a map with travel times: http://www.trulia.com/local/94128/driving:1%7Ctransit:0%7Cposition:37.617392;-122.384492%7Ctime:30_commute http://www.trulia.com/local/94128/driving:1%7Ctransit:0%7Cpo...
    - DrScump 10y ago
      Move the pointer to central SF (and Trulia will assume you have instant access to the freeway). 30 minutes with no traffic. Not 15. But anyway, I was talking about the entrance. 30 minutes would barely get you from central SF to the airport ramp with a mostly empty 101. But that's not the problem. Getting parked and a shuttle in will be at least 45 minutes, if you get a shuttle faster than normal. Taking BART to SFO entrance: check the schedules. You'll be surprised how much of the day it doesn't run at all.
      - Swizec 10y ago
        This must be why I always Uber to the airport. On normal days (not big travel day like Thanksgiving time) you can get from SoMa to Standing Outside SFO With Luggage Out of Trunk in about 30min during the day. I've seen as low as 15min at night. I may have always gotten lucky and when I actually plan the trip I try to go for more like 45min travel-to-airport-time. Just to be sure. On Thanksgiving or such, the off-ramp from 101 to SFO takes about an hour. That's crazy.
  - CalRobert 10y ago
    I found BART to make this pretty straightfoward when I lived in Berkeley. Also, when flying to Sacramento recently I took the Norwegian Air trip from Gatwick to Oakland and then capitol corridor to Sacramento. Didn't even need to get on BART; the airport connector took me to the catwalk to Amtrak. The only airport in the bay that seems hard to access is San Jose, which has less service anyway.

Swizec 10y ago

At SFO you can go from entrance to on-plane in 40 minutes for a transatlantic flight. I like SFO.

DrScump 10y ago
At SFO, the trick is getting from your origin elsewhere in the Bay Area to the entrance in the first place.
- tlrobinson 10y ago
  15 minutes without traffic or 30 minutes with traffic from SF to SFO isn't bad at all. Here's a map with travel times: http://www.trulia.com/local/94128/driving:1%7Ctransit:0%7Cposition:37.617392;-122.384492%7Ctime:30_commute http://www.trulia.com/local/94128/driving:1%7Ctransit:0%7Cpo...
  - DrScump 10y ago
    Move the pointer to central SF (and Trulia will assume you have instant access to the freeway). 30 minutes with no traffic. Not 15. But anyway, I was talking about the entrance. 30 minutes would barely get you from central SF to the airport ramp with a mostly empty 101. But that's not the problem. Getting parked and a shuttle in will be at least 45 minutes, if you get a shuttle faster than normal. Taking BART to SFO entrance: check the schedules. You'll be surprised how much of the day it doesn't run at all.
    - Swizec 10y ago
      This must be why I always Uber to the airport. On normal days (not big travel day like Thanksgiving time) you can get from SoMa to Standing Outside SFO With Luggage Out of Trunk in about 30min during the day. I've seen as low as 15min at night. I may have always gotten lucky and when I actually plan the trip I try to go for more like 45min travel-to-airport-time. Just to be sure. On Thanksgiving or such, the off-ramp from 101 to SFO takes about an hour. That's crazy.
- CalRobert 10y ago
  I found BART to make this pretty straightfoward when I lived in Berkeley. Also, when flying to Sacramento recently I took the Norwegian Air trip from Gatwick to Oakland and then capitol corridor to Sacramento. Didn't even need to get on BART; the airport connector took me to the catwalk to Amtrak. The only airport in the bay that seems hard to access is San Jose, which has less service anyway.