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Old Jan 16, 2014 | 3:21 pm
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Originally Posted by redtop
Thanks for the replies. So, it sounds like I would want to sit on the right for landing into SFO and on the left for departing from SFO. Is that right?
That's what I would do.

Originally Posted by redtop
The opinion in the thread about landing into SFO when coming from LHR suggests sitting on the left for arrival into SFO, and I'm trying to make sense of the difference... I suppose LHR-SFO is a more northerly route than BOS-SFO, so perhaps sitting on the left would make sense in the LHR case if the plane would end up flying past SF from the North before looping back to SFO from the South.
Again correct. From London it's a polar route, so you go in from the north and barely scrape the northwest corner or Nevada. From the domestic US east coast you'll fly basically east-west through Nevada.
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