ATA pulling out of SFO
 

Moving to sleep w/big brother Southwest in OAK. More Hawaii service, too. More security and parking hassles @ OAK. More reason to fly SFO :)

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I have to say that SFO has become my favorite airport of the 4 I can fly from. Most of my flights out of there have 2200-0030 departures, which aren't readily available at other airports around here on AA, and the terminal/security is a breeze to go through at that time of day. Plenty of parking options nearby from $9-12 a day. Even the Sunday night traffic to get down there cooperated last night.

Since they moved all the shuttle services to departure level, and left private passenger pickup down on the arrivals level, traffic flow seems to be pretty good, too.

Cannot say I am sad to see them go - although I never flew ATA (but had plenty of opportunities), many friends/colleagues had very negative things to say about the carrier.

I hope that we can begin replacing some of the departing LCCs with other carriers - Virgin America will fill this gap with what I hope will be excellent service. That is, if they get off the ground!

I would selfishly love to see more int'l flights out of SFO too - we have great coverage to Asia, decent to Europe. I heard from a friend in the industry that Emirates is starting SFO-DXB nonstops on their new Airbus A340-500 although not sure if its daily; and also heard we may get one/more carriers to Europe. We added Icelandair last year, but they suspended service until May - it is seasonal (May-October). Maybe we will see Alitalia return its daily SFO-MXP, or Swiss its daily SFO-ZRH flight. Then there is Air New Zealand and Qantas; all we are really missing is Air India or maybe TG and that would be one hopping int'l terminal!

As it is now we have a lot of lift to London - 2x UA, 2x BA and 1x VS. Let's add something else for a change!