Airport Issues: Visiting Recourse Technologies

The San Francisco peninsula has two major airports:

plus the Oakland (CA) Airport on the other (east) side of the bay.

We recommend that you consider flying into San Jose instead of San Francisco.

SFO tends to have worse weather than SJC or Oakland
In bad weather, SFO has to close down one of its two runways (they are too close together) resulting in flight delays.
Construction activity at SFO results in significant traffic delays within the airport.
Consider taking I-380 to I-280 (south) rather than US 101. Traffic on I-280 almost always has fewer problems and moves better.
Note: I-380 is just north of the airport.
Note: I-380 is easily accessible from the auto rental companies.

Smaller airport than SFO: smaller selection of flights. Selection impacts choice of airline, and sometimes price, but you can usually get as good (or better) flight schedule to most US destinations.
Slightly closer to Palo Alto than SFO.