Airline Popularity at SFO

CS 360 Final Project by Darren Dunn

San Francisco International Airport, or SFO as it is more commonly called, is San Francisco's main international airport.

SFO has 4 terminals: 1, 2, 3, and the International terminal. Terminals 1, 2, and 3 house domestic flights whereas the International terminal houses international flights

In 2020, SFO served a total of 16,409,625 passengers with 79.9% of those being domestic flights and 20.1% of those being international flights

Fun fact: SFO is United Airlines' hub airport. This means that they use SFO as a main connection for all United Airlines flights coming in and out of central California. In addition, United Airlines has on of the largest maintenance hubs of any airline at SFO.

Source: flysfo.com

Personal Motivation

I am an avid aviation geek! I love airplanes and I love flying. I would even park near the airport and just watch planes take off and land. Seeing how a large piece of aluminum just effortlessly takes off into the sky amazes me. If I were not a CS major, I would be working towards becoming a commercial pilot.

Growing up, I have traveled across the world with my parents. I would always be fascinated seeing all the different types of planes sitting at the gates of San Francisco International Airport (SFO). I slowly realized that there was a pattern of certain airlines being more popular than others.

Now that I am taking Data Visualization, I want to take SFO’s data on airlines that have visited the airport over the past several years and create visuals to help people see which airlines have visited SFO the most and have served the most passengers.