Official Statement Airport Commission City and County of San ...

from $1.50 to $4.00. The Airport is the only station in the entire BART system that has a surcharge added to all
fares.
According to BART statistics, more than 10,000 passengers per day ride BART to and from the Airport.
Of these, approximately 11% are Airport employees.
The Commission has requested that BART waive the entire surcharge for riders working at the Airport.
Such a move would save Airport employees who commute by BART $8 per day, or $2,000 per year for those
working five days per week. BART offered Airport employees a 25% discount off their entire fare, which would
partially reduce the cost of the increased surcharge. The Airport is sponsoring free shuttle for Airport employees
from the nearby Millbrae station. Because of the surcharge increase, a rider from Daly City can travel to the
Millbrae station for less than half the price of a ticket to the Airport, even though the Millbrae station is farther
away.
BART pays the Airport $2.5 million per year for rent on the BART station in the ITC, plus an additional
$700,000 for custodial and electrical support services. BART currently nets more than $5 million per year from the
Airport surcharge. Even if the $4 surcharge is waived for Airport employees, BART will still realize approximately
$11 million per year from the surcharge paid by Airport passengers.
The Commission is unable to predict what effect a reduction of the surcharge for Airport employees will
have on the finances of BART and its ability to make rental payments to the Airport.
Ground Transportation and Parking Facilities
Public Parking. A 6,385 space hourly Domestic Parking Garage is connected to the three domestic
terminals by seven pedestrian tunnels and three pedestrian bridges, including an elevated pedestrian bridge between
the Domestic Parking Garage and Terminal 1 that opened in August 2007 and an elevated pedestrian bridge from the
Domestic Parking Garage to Terminal 2 that has been completed, but will not be opened to the public until the
renovation of Terminal 2 is completed in Spring 2011. Approximately 4,675 of the 6,385 spaces are available for
public parking, 230 are used for taxi stations and 730 are for permit-employee parking. Seven hundred fifty spaces
are cordoned off due to the security requirements of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act. See “–Airport
Security.” The Domestic Parking Garage features ParkFAST, reserved covered parking with an automated entry
and exit system and ParkVALET, providing valet service to all terminals. Two public garages located near the ITC
provide 2,980 spaces for short-term parking and approximately 3,112 indoor covered spaces and approximately
1,670 uncovered spaces are available for public long-term parking approximately 1.5 miles from the Terminal
Complex. This long-term parking lot offers curbside baggage check-in service for most domestic flights, and free
shuttle bus service to and from the Terminal Complex.
Employee Parking. The Airport also operates three on-Airport employee/permit parking facilities: the
West Field Garage containing 1,722 spaces, located approximately one mile from the Terminal Complex; a
1,600 space surface lot, located at the north end of the Airport, approximately two miles from the Terminal
Complex; and Lot D (formerly the main long-term public lot) with approximately 3,500 spaces, located
approximately 1.5 miles from the Terminal Complex.
Rental Car Facility. A 5,000 space, full service rental car facility for all on-Airport rental car companies is
located approximately one mile north of the Terminal Complex and is accessed from the terminals by the AirTrain.
Bicycle Parking. The Airport offers complimentary bicycle parking in the Central Garage and the ITC for
72 bicycles for up to 14 days.
Maintenance and Cargo Facilities
The airlines have made substantial investments in facilities at the Airport. The United Airlines
maintenance base, containing approximately three million square feet of building and hangar floor area, is United
Airlines’ sole maintenance facility, and one of the world’s largest private aircraft maintenance facilities. Major
maintenance facilities are also operated at the Airport by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Northwest
Airlines. The airlines have constructed these maintenance facilities under long-term ground leases. Certain other
airlines operate significant line maintenance facilities at the Airport.
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