# California Travel Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/california-travel-question/428182>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 29, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/california-travel-question/428182 "2007-11-29T15:21:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/california-travel-question/428182/21 "2007-12-04T03:26:35Z")

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One more thing on SJC: depending on what airline you use, you will end up at the “old” (Terminal C) or “new” (Terminal A) terminals. Terminal C seems to have been built when the pharoahs were young (and don’t ask me why the hell they call it Terminal C, if its the old terminal); they actually pull up a flight of stairs to the jets and you exit the aircraft down them and hike across the tarmac to your gate. Which isn’t a bad thing in nice weather, and it often is nice weather. But if you’re rolling a big carry-on you have a bad back, I’d check it in instead.

Southwest, Hawaiian, and American (there may be others, not sure) use Terminal A. All others use Terminal C.

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