You expect San Diego’s airport to have all the best that our sunny, binational region has to offer – easy check-in, delicious local food, light-filled spaces, a view of the bay, interesting artwork, enhanced access to and from the airport, and good feelings every step of your journey. After many years of extensive community outreach and input, we’re creating a new terminal that reflects all the things we love about our region.
Lane Security Checkpoint
Restaurants and Retail Stores
Gates
EV Charging Stations
Parking Spaces
Airport Authority broke ground on New T1
New Administration Building opened
New T1 Parking Plaza Stage 1 (more than 2,800 spaces) opened
Phase 1A of New T1, including new 19 gates, and Parking Plaza Stage 2 scheduled to open
Phase 1B of New T1 scheduled to open, including final 11 gates
When Terminal 1 opened in 1967, it served 2.5 million passengers in its first year. In 2019, the same facility served approximately 11 million passengers. Today, SAN is the busiest single-runway commercial airport in the nation. For about half of our passengers, Terminal 1 provides their first — and sometimes last — impression of San Diego. We want it to be a great one.
Our current Terminal 1 was built for a 1967 San Diego, a time and place with fewer people, planes, and passports (but just as much sunshine, surf, and sea). In the past three years, we’ve held more than 100 community meetings and listened closely to what you wanted from a New T1. The result? A state-of-the-art terminal inspired by the people and places we love about San Diego.
Let’s take a look at where we’ve been over the years, and where we’re headed.
For questions on the New T1 project, contact us here or email us at NewT1info@san.org
For general airport-related questions, visit san.org/Travel-Info/Contact-Us
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