SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

By Amanda Valori

PARKING GARAGE

QUICK FACTS

• Single-runway commercial service airport• 9,400 feet long and 200 feet

wide

• 600 departures and arrivals each day

• 50,000 passengers each day• 661 acres of land• Southwest Airlines is the

most prominent

FLIGHT OPERATIONS

• Take offs and landings are mostly from East to West

• Approach from the east is steep• “Displaced threshold”, located

1,810 feet from the runway end• Santa Ana wind conditions

DISPLACED THRESHOLD

INTERESTING FACTS

• U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) air station

• Noise curfew• WWII

SOURCES

• http://www.san.org/airport/airport_facts/airport_official_stats.asp

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_International_Airport