Earlier this month San Francisco International Airport (SFO) celebrated its 95th birthday. The largest of the three major airports serving the San Francisco Bay area, an earlier FreightWaves Classics article covered the early history of SFO. You can read that article here, while today’s article will profile the airport’s history during the first two decades of the jet age.
The jet age begins at SFO
In March 1959 the first commercial jet service at SFO began when Trans World Airlines (TWA) flew...