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78-585: Oakland International Airport , officially Metropolitan Oakland International Airport , ( IATA : OAK , ICAO : KOAK , FAA LID : OAK ) is an international airport in Oakland, California , United States. The airport is located 7 miles (11 km) south of Downtown Oakland and 12 miles (19 km) east of San Francisco , serving the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area . The airport

156-604: A Convair 880 , to Chicago. American Airlines scheduled service from Oakland to Phoenix and then into Dallas using the Boeing 720 aircraft. Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) provided several flights within California from OAK using Boeing 727 and DC-9 aircraft. United Airlines introduced non-stop service to Chicago and on the San Francisco-Oakland-Los Angeles route using the Boeing 727 . During

234-688: A $ 100 million renovation of the Terminal 1 complex. The project included seismic architectural retrofits in central buildings, replacement and upgrading of infrastructure and improvement of the passenger environment. The project was completed in Spring 2017. In 2016, Norwegian Air Shuttle announced that nonstop flights would connect Oakland with London beginning the following spring. British Airways responded with their own service to London, with both airlines providing service to London's Gatwick Airport . American Airlines also returned and re-branded, following

312-418: A San Francisco Bay Area gateway, flying twice-weekly to Amsterdam , via a stop at Los Angeles International Airport . Arkefly provided 18 weeks of scheduled service in the summer of 2012. The airline followed with a similar schedule during the summer of 2013, before discontinuing service at OAK. In 2013, FedEx Express opened a $ 30 million upgrade of its hub facility at OAK, including additions to accommodate

390-562: A commercial agreement with Southwest Airlines , until its merger with AirTran Airways in 2011. Malaysia-based AirAsia X honored its new partners, the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). AirAsia X had one of their planes full of its executives and crew members "touch down" at OAK in acknowledgement of the to-be-announced sponsorship. AirAsia executives had new optimism that service between

468-558: A daily flight to Honolulu a month later. Skybus Airlines stopped flying to Columbus, OH when it ended operations on April 5. American Airlines and Continental Airlines both dropped Oakland on September 3, United Airlines ended service to Los Angeles on November 2. Following the years of the Great Recession , during which a few airlines were either liquidated ( ATA Airlines and Aloha Airlines ), or consolidated business to San Francisco International Airport , OAK started

546-504: A gradual recovery, which has continued through 2017. In 2009, Allegiant Air moved operations from San Francisco International Airport, before designating OAK as a focus city. After the bankruptcies of ATA and Aloha Airlines, Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines replaced their nonstop services to Hawaii. In the same year, Volaris began service to OAK as their first destination in the San Francisco Bay Area and held

624-406: A merger with US Airways ; the latter previously had a short-term presence at OAK, following a separate merger with America West Airlines during the previous decade. Southwest Airlines inaugurated nonstop flights from Oakland to Mexico for the airline's first international nonstop flights from OAK. The additional routes also gave the airline a combined total of 30 year-round and seasonal flights at

702-567: A new airport is built, replacing the old one, leaving the city's new "major" airport (or the only remaining airport) code to no longer correspond with the city's name. The original airport in Nashville, Tennessee, was built in 1936 as part of the Works Progress Administration and called Berry Field with the designation, BNA. A new facility known as Nashville International Airport was built in 1987 but still uses BNA. This

780-568: A part of the Bay Area's All Nighter bus network : Sonoma County Airport Express additionally provides airport bus service between the airport and Marin County , Sonoma County , and the Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport . [REDACTED] Media related to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport at Wikimedia Commons IATA airport code The assignment of these codes

858-467: A renovated and expanded security screening area. As part of this program, airport roadways, curbsides and parking lots were also renovated by the end of 2008. In 2008, Oakland saw a series of cutbacks due to high fuel costs and airline bankruptcies, more than other Bay Area airports. In just a few days, Oakland's numerous non-stops to Hawaii were eliminated following the liquidation of ATA Airlines and Aloha Airlines , although Hawaiian Airlines started

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936-805: A simpler overhead compartment arrangement. A more major modification to the 880 became the Convair 990 , produced in parallel with the 880-M between 1961 and 1963. Swissair named theirs Coronado, after an island off the San Diego coast and where the first 990 landed. The design entered service with Delta Air Lines in May 1960, slightly modified as the 880-22M, having newer-version 805-3B engines. The 880s were flown by Cathay Pacific , Delta, Japan Airlines , Northeast Airlines , Swissair , TWA , and VIASA . As they left commercial service, many 880s were bought by American Jet Industries for various uses. One example

1014-465: A third passenger terminal. This project is in the early stages of planning, with a draft environmental report published in the summer of 2023. The third passenger terminal would be built with up to 25 new gates. Terminals 1 and 2 would be condensed into a single terminal, with fewer gates, shared ticketing, baggage handling, and security. Additionally, customs facilities will be expanded to accommodate additional international flights. A connector will connect

1092-520: A traditional network with hubs. The city of Oakland looked into the construction of an airport starting in 1925. The announcement of the Dole Air Race for a flight from California to Hawaii provided the incentive to purchase 680 acres (280 ha) in April 1927 for the airport. The 7,020-foot-long (2,140 m) runway was the longest in the world at the time and was built in just 21 days ahead of

1170-509: Is GSN and its IATA code is SPN, and some coincide with IATA codes of non-U.S. airports. Canada's unusual codes—which bear little to no similarity with any conventional abbreviation to the city's name—such as YUL in Montréal , and YYZ in Toronto , originated from the two-letter codes used to identify weather reporting stations in the 1930s. The letters preceding the two-letter code follow

1248-407: Is accessible by private automobile from Interstate 880 (Nimitz Freeway) which is 2 miles (3 km) away via Hegenberger Road or 98th Avenue heading west. Both roads converge into Airport Road before looping in front of the terminal entrances. Doolittle Drive ( State Route 61 ) crosses both Hegenberger Road and 98th Avenue just to the east of where they converge into Airport Road, providing access to

1326-617: Is available. However, many railway administrations have their own list of codes for their stations, such as the list of Amtrak station codes . Airport codes arose out of the convenience that the practice brought pilots for location identification in the 1930s. Initially, pilots in the United States used the two-letter code from the National Weather Service (NWS) for identifying cities. This system became unmanageable for cities and towns without an NWS identifier, and

1404-523: Is different from the name in English, yet the airport code represents only the English name. Examples include: Due to scarcity of codes, some airports are given codes with letters not found in their names: The use of 'X' as a filler letter is a practice to create three-letter identifiers when more straightforward options were unavailable: Some airports in the United States retained their NWS ( National Weather Service ) codes and simply appended an X at

1482-671: Is governed by IATA Resolution 763, and it is administered by the IATA's headquarters in Montreal , Canada. The codes are published semi-annually in the IATA Airline Coding Directory. IATA provides codes for airport handling entities, and for certain railway stations. Alphabetical lists of airports sorted by IATA code are available. A list of railway station codes , shared in agreements between airlines and rail lines such as Amtrak , SNCF , and Deutsche Bahn ,

1560-513: Is in conjunction to rules aimed to avoid confusion that seem to apply in the United States, which state that "the first and second letters or second and third letters of an identifier may not be duplicated with less than 200 nautical miles separation." Thus, Washington, D.C. area's three airports all have radically different codes: IAD for Washington–Dulles , DCA for Washington–Reagan (District of Columbia Airport), and BWI for Baltimore (Baltimore–Washington International, formerly BAL). Since HOU

1638-543: Is not followed outside the United States: In addition, since three letter codes starting with Q are widely used in radio communication, cities whose name begins with "Q" also had to find alternate codes, as in the case of: IATA codes should not be confused with the FAA identifiers of U.S. airports. Most FAA identifiers agree with the corresponding IATA codes, but some do not, such as Saipan , whose FAA identifier

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1716-518: Is owned by the Port of Oakland and has domestic passenger flights to cities throughout the United States and international flights to Mexico , El Salvador , and Portugal , in addition to cargo flights to China and Japan . The airport covers 2,600 acres (1,100 ha) of land. The airport is an operating base for Southwest Airlines , which operates point-to-point routes with bases instead of

1794-416: Is used for William P. Hobby Airport , the new Houston–Intercontinental became IAH. The code BKK was originally assigned to Bangkok–Don Mueang and was later transferred to Suvarnabhumi Airport , while the former adopted DMK. The code ISK was originally assigned to Gandhinagar Airport (Nashik's old airport) and later on transferred to Ozar Airport (Nashik's current airport). Shanghai–Hongqiao retained

1872-681: The Boeing 737 MAX by both Southwest and American, the "restructuring" of schedules by airlines, and a lack of demand all contribute to this. British Airways ended service in October 2018. Level moved its operations to SFO , as did Norwegian Air Shuttle for its seven routes serving OAK. Southwest Airlines ended systemwide service with Newark Liberty International Airport in November 2019, followed by discontinuing three more routes with OAK effective January 2020. Three other routes are currently suspended by Southwest until further notice, while American did

1950-571: The Canadian transcontinental railroads were built, each station was assigned its own two-letter Morse code : When the Canadian government established airports, it used the existing railway codes for them as well. If the airport had a weather station, authorities added a "Y" to the front of the code, meaning "Yes" to indicate it had a weather station or some other letter to indicate it did not. When international codes were created in cooperation with

2028-471: The Convair division of General Dynamics . It was designed to compete with the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 by being smaller but faster, a niche that failed to create demand. When it was first introduced, some in aviation circles claimed that at 615 mph (990 km/h), it was the fastest jet transport in the world. Only 65 Convair 880s were produced over the lifetime of the production run from 1959 to 1962, and General Dynamics eventually withdrew from

2106-589: The Lionel J. Wilson Terminal 2, with seven gates for PSA and AirCal service. In the mid-1980s, People Express Airlines provided scheduled Boeing 747 transcontinental flights from OAK to Newark. SFO Helicopter Airlines served scheduled passenger flights between SFO and the Oakland Convention Center from OAK for many years until 1985. In 1987, British Airways and Air France Concorde visited Oakland to provide supersonic two-hour flights to

2184-701: The Vietnam War , World Airways shuttled thousands of military passengers through Oakland to their bases in Southeast Asia, and an international arrivals facility was built, allowing the airport to handle international flights for the first time. World Airways had broken ground on the World Air Center at Oakland International Airport. The maintenance hangar could store four Boeing 747s . It opened in May 1973. During its operation, World Airways provided contract maintenance services for 14 airlines in

2262-593: The 880, both numbers referring to its top speed of 600 mph (970 km/h) or 880 ft/s (268 m/s). It was powered by General Electric CJ-805-3 turbojets, a civilian version of the J79 which powered the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter , McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom , and Convair B-58 Hustler . The first example of the Model 22 FAA Type Certificate, initial production version (no prototype

2340-544: The Dole race start. The airport was dedicated by Charles Lindbergh on September 17. In its early days, because of its long runway enabling safe takeoff rolls for fuel-heavy aircraft, Oakland was the departing point of several historic flights, including Charles Kingsford Smith 's historic US-Australia flight in 1928 and Amelia Earhart 's final flight in 1937. Earhart departed from this airport when she made her final, ill-fated voyage, intending to return there after circumnavigating

2418-692: The FBO at OAK was the first in the Bay Area and the twelfth location added to Landmark's network in 2011. The FBO is centrally located at OAK's North Field in the Hangar 5 facility. Landmark has initiated a multimillion-dollar renovation project, having already upgraded the FBO terminal along with beginning hangar and property improvements. KaiserAir also provides FBO services at Oakland's North Field, performing maintenance on Gulfstream, Hawker, Cessna and other business jet aircraft. KaiserAir operates Kona Shuttle with flights to Hawaii and charter business jets. The airport

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2496-578: The Pacific halfway to Hawaii and back to Oakland. Additionally, Concorde returned for a special around-the-world trip covering 38,215 miles over a three-week tour in March 1989. FedEx Express opened an air cargo base at OAK in 1988, which is now one of the busiest air freight terminals in the United States. In the 1990s, Southwest Airlines opened a crew base in Oakland, and expanded its flights to become

2574-505: The U.S. For example, several airports in Alaska have scheduled commercial service, such as Stebbins and Nanwalek , which use FAA codes instead of ICAO codes. Thus, neither system completely includes all airports with scheduled service. Some airports are identified in colloquial speech by their IATA code. Examples include LAX and JFK . Convair 880 The Convair 880 is a retired American narrow-body jet airliner produced by

2652-474: The U.S. and the airline's main base in Kuala Lumpur , could possibly happen earlier than originally expected, but has yet to come to fruition as of 2020. In 2009, OAK had the highest on-time arrival percentage among the 40 busiest North American airports. In 2011, Spirit Airlines returned to OAK after several years of absence, eventually flying a combined total of seven year-round and seasonal routes by

2730-489: The United Air Lines training center in 1945. In 1943 the U.S. Armed Forces temporarily took over Oakland Airport and opened Naval Air Station Oakland . It was transformed into an airlift base for military flights to the Pacific islands, ordering all scheduled services to move to San Francisco International Airport . After the war, airlines slowly returned to Oakland; Western Airlines began flights in 1946, and

2808-481: The United States, because "Y" was seldom used in the United States, Canada simply used the weather station codes for its airports, changing the "Y" to a "Z" if it conflicted with an airport code already in use. The result is that most major Canadian airport codes start with "Y" followed by two letters in the city's name (for example, YOW for O tta w a , YWG for W innipe g , YYC for C algar y , or YVR for V ancouve r ), whereas other Canadian airports append

2886-434: The airline's new Boeing 777 Freighter fleet. In 2014, Norwegian Air Shuttle announced its first two year-round flights to Stockholm and Oslo airport, using Boeing 787-8 aircraft seating 291 passengers operated by Norwegian Long Haul . The flights were the first-ever nonstop services offered from the two Scandinavian capitals to the San Francisco Bay Area, providing several connections throughout Europe. The Oslo flight

2964-527: The airliner market after considering the 880 project a failure. The Convair 990 Coronado was a stretched and faster variant of the 880. Convair began development of a medium-range commercial jet in April 1956, to compete with announced products from Boeing and Douglas . Initially the design was called the Skylark , but the name was later changed to the Golden Arrow , then Convair 600 and then finally

3042-497: The airport announced that it was changing its official name from Metropolitan Oakland International Airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport . The Port of Oakland Board of Commissioners approved the new name on April 11. Among the reasons given for the change were that many travelers do not understand that the City of Oakland is part of the Bay Area and that its airport directly faces San Francisco Bay . Another reason

3120-447: The airport as of early 2017. In 2017, Norwegian Air Shuttle announced nonstop flights connecting Oakland with Copenhagen on a seasonal basis from March 28, and Oakland with Barcelona from June 7 to operate year-round. Level , a new carrier owned by IAG , responded with their own Barcelona service, started flights initially operated by IAG partner Iberia on June 2, with both airlines providing service to Barcelona El Prat Airport . In

3198-478: The airport in about eight minutes with an on-time performance of more than 99 percent. A fare surcharge is added for trips to or from Oakland International Airport. The Oakland Airport Connector Project is largely attributable to the work of former BART director and port commissioner Carole Ward Allen who was responsible for securing local, state, and federal funding for the project. Ward Allen advocated for its approval before several transportation authorities endorsed

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3276-440: The airport itself instead of the city it serves, while another code is reserved which refers to the city itself which can be used to search for flights to any of its airports. For instance: Or using a code for the city in one of the major airports and then assigning another code to another airport: When different cities with the same name each have an airport, they need to be assigned different codes. Examples include: Sometimes,

3354-494: The airport's dominant passenger carrier. The airport has international arrival facilities, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection office. The 1990s saw a rise of low-cost carriers serving Oakland, Morris Air (later merged into Southwest Airlines ), and MarkAir to name a few, provided several domestic destinations from OAK. During the 1990s, tour operator SunTrips contracted Aerocancun and Leisure Air to provide scheduled charter flights from OAK to sun destinations during

3432-418: The airport's former name, such as Orlando International Airport 's MCO (for Mc C o y Air Force Base), or Chicago's O'Hare International Airport , which is coded ORD for its original name: Or char d Field. In rare cases, the code comes from the airport's unofficial name, such as Kahului Airport 's OGG (for local aviation pioneer Jimmy H ogg ). In large metropolitan areas, airport codes are often named after

3510-412: The bay at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Oakland International Airport began a $ 300 million expansion and renovation project in 2004, including adding five gates in Terminal 2. The new concourse partially opened in the fall of 2006, was fully opened by the spring of 2007, and a new baggage claim in Terminal 2 opened in the summer of 2006. The former Terminal 2 baggage claim has been replaced by

3588-502: The code SHA, while the newer Shanghai–Pudong adopted PVG. The opposite was true for Berlin : the airport Berlin–Tegel used the code TXL, while its smaller counterpart Berlin–Schönefeld used SXF; the Berlin Brandenburg Airport has the airport code BER, which is also part of its branding. The airports of Hamburg (HAM) and Hannover (HAJ) are less than 100 nautical miles (190 km) apart and therefore share

3666-455: The consolidated terminal with the new terminal. A net gain of 16 gates could be added. Also as part of the project, OAK plans to reconfigure cargo facilities and improve roadways, parking, and other support facilities. Oakland International Airport has two terminals with a total of 29 gates. The terminals are connected at post-security and gate areas, enabling arriving passengers to go straight to their connecting flights without having to re-enter

3744-488: The early 1990s. TAESA and Mexicana Airlines also flew between Oakland and cities in Mexico for many years. In the past Tower Air and Corsairfly flew Orly Airport to OAK to Papeete , Tahiti; Martinair flew to Schiphol Airport ; and CityBird flew to Brussels Airport . United Airlines vacated its 300,000 sq ft (30,000 m) Oakland Maintenance Center in May 2003 and transferred work to its base across

3822-934: The end. Examples include: A lot of minor airfields without scheduled passenger traffic have ICAO codes but not IATA codes, since the four letter codes allow more number of codes, and IATA codes are mainly used for passenger services such as tickets, and ICAO codes by pilots. In the US, such airfields use FAA codes instead of ICAO. There are airports with scheduled service for which there are ICAO codes but not IATA codes, such as Nkhotakota Airport/Tangole Airport in Malawi or Chōfu Airport in Tokyo, Japan. There are also several minor airports in Russia (e.g., Omsukchan Airport ) which lack IATA codes and instead use internal Russian codes for booking. Flights to these airports cannot be booked through

3900-402: The facility. By 1988, World Airways vacated the Oakland maintenance base and moved its headquarters to Washington Dulles . That same year, United Airlines assumed the lease on the maintenance base. After the war, Oakland's traffic slumped, but airline deregulation prompted several low-fare carriers to begin flights. This increase prompted the airport to build a $ 16.3 million second terminal,

3978-557: The first three letters of the city in which it is located, for instance: The code may also be a combination of the letters in its name, such as: Sometimes the airport code reflects pronunciation, rather than spelling, namely: For many reasons, some airport codes do not fit the normal scheme described above. Some airports, for example, cross several municipalities or regions, and therefore, use codes derived from some of their letters, resulting in: Other airports—particularly those serving cities with multiple airports—have codes derived from

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4056-478: The following format: Most large airports in Canada have codes that begin with the letter "Y", although not all "Y" codes are Canadian (for example, YUM for Yuma, Arizona , and YNT for Yantai , China), and not all Canadian airports start with the letter "Y" (for example, ZBF for Bathurst, New Brunswick ). Many Canadian airports have a code that starts with W, X or Z, but none of these are major airports. When

4134-597: The form of " YYZ ", a song by the rock band Rush , which utilizes the Morse code signal as a musical motif. Some airports have started using their IATA codes as brand names , such as Calgary International Airport (YYC) and Vancouver International Airport (YVR). Numerous New Zealand airports use codes that contain the letter Z, to distinguish them from similar airport names in other countries. Examples include HLZ for Hamilton , ZQN for Queenstown , and WSZ for Westport . Predominantly, airport codes are named after

4212-618: The globe. Boeing Air Transport (a predecessor of United Airlines ) began scheduled flights to Oakland in December 1927. It was joined by Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 1932. In 1929 Boeing opened the Boeing School of Aeronautics on the field, which expanded rapidly in 1939 as part of the Civilian Pilot Training Program . Thousands of pilots and mechanics were trained before the facility was changed into

4290-487: The international air booking systems or have international luggage transferred there, and thus, they are booked instead through the airline or a domestic booking system. Several heliports in Greenland have 3-letter codes used internally which might be IATA codes for airports in faraway countries. There are several airports with scheduled service that have not been assigned ICAO codes that do have IATA codes, especially in

4368-610: The largest overhaul and maintenance operations in the country when Aircraft Engine and Maintenance Company (AEMCO) processed thousands of aircraft. The airport's first Jet Age terminal (now Terminal 1) was designed by John Carl Warnecke & Associates and opened in 1962, part of a $ 20 million expansion on bay fill that included the 10,000-foot (3048 m) runway 11/29 (now 12/30). The May 1963 OAG showed 15 airline flights arriving in Oakland each day, including nine from San Francisco; in June 1963, TWA flew Oakland's first scheduled jet,

4446-460: The lifetime of the project, although some sources estimate much higher losses. The aircraft were involved in 17 accidents and five hijackings. A modified version of the basic 880 was the "-M" version, which incorporated four leading-edge slats per wing, Krueger leading-edge flaps between the fuselage and inboard engines, power-boosted rudder, added engine thrust, increased fuel capacity, stronger landing gear, greater adjustment to seating pitch, and

4524-459: The months following, Norwegian announced in May the introduction of nonstop flights between Oakland and Rome Fiumicino started on February 6, 2018, and in July the introduction of nonstop flights between Oakland and Paris Charles de Gaulle began on April 10, 2018. Between mid-2018 and early 2020, OAK had both lost and was losing domestic and international nonstop routes; the indefinite grounding of

4602-496: The name change. The city attorney of San Francisco , which owns SFO, has filed a federal trademark lawsuit against Oakland for the decision. The Port of Oakland has filed a countersuit, pointing out even SFO is not technically located in San Francisco, but rather San Mateo County . On November 12, 2024, U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas S. Hixson granted SFO's motion for a preliminary injunction and ordered OAK to stop using

4680-612: The name of the airport itself, for instance: This is also true with some cities with a single airport (even if there is more than one airport in the metropolitan area of said city), such as BDL for Hartford, Connecticut 's B ra dl ey International Airport or Baltimore's BWI, for B altimore/ W ashington I nternational Airport ; however, the latter also serves Washington, D.C. , alongside Dulles International Airport (IAD, for I nternational A irport D ulles) and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA, for D istrict of C olumbia A irport). The code also sometimes comes from

4758-521: The nearby city of Alameda . Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) serves the airport at Oakland International Airport station via the Oakland Airport Connector , which is an automated guideway transit (AGT) line connecting the airport to nearby Coliseum station , served by mainline BART trains and Amtrak . The AGT vehicles depart the station every five minutes during daily peak hours and are designed to transport travelers to and from

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4836-416: The one they are located in: Other airport codes are of obscure origin, and each has its own peculiarities: In Asia, codes that do not correspond with their city's names include Niigata 's KIJ , Nanchang 's KHN and Pyongyang 's FNJ . EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg , which serves three countries, has three airport codes: BSL, MLH, EAP. Some cities have a name in their respective language which

4914-585: The production line shut down after only three years. The 880's five-abreast seating made it unattractive to airlines, while Boeing was able to outcompete it with the Boeing 720 , which could be sold at a significantly lower price, as it was a minimal modification of the existing 707. In addition, the General Electric engines had a higher specific fuel consumption than the Boeing's Pratt & Whitney JT3Cs . General Dynamics lost around $ 185 million over

4992-402: The project, which created between 2,500 and 5,200 direct and indirect jobs. Some critics of the project argued that the money would be better spent on supporting existing local transit agencies, which had financial issues at the time. Three AC Transit routes directly serve the airport; Line 21 runs during the daytime and early evenings, Line 73 runs at all times, and Line 805 runs overnight as

5070-679: The same during summer 2019 for service with Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , JetBlue withdrew operations from OAK in April 2020 while American Airlines withdrew in early June 2020. However, some traffic is returning. In December 2022 Volaris El Salvador announced nonstop flights connecting Oakland with San Salvador beginning the following spring of 2023. In late summer of 2023, Avianca El Salvador announced seasonal nonstop service from Oakland to San Salvador . In September 2023, Viva Aerobus announced nonstop service between Oakland and Monterrey . In 2024,

5148-506: The same first and middle letters, indicating that this rule might be followed only in Germany. Many cities retain historical names in their airport codes, even after having undergone an official name/spelling/transliteration change: Some airport codes are based on previous names associated with a present airport, often with a military heritage. These include: Some airports are named for an administrative division or nearby city, rather than

5226-446: The security check. All non-pre-cleared international flights are processed in Terminal 1. JSX is housed in a facility separate from the main passenger terminals. Oakland International Airport has four runways . Changes to Earth's magnetic field required runways 27 and 29 to be renamed 28 and 30 in 2013. A taxiway that connects the north and south runways passes over Ron Cowan Parkway, forming an aircraft bridge . More than 95% of

5304-500: The station code of Malton, Mississauga , where it is located). YUL is used for Montréal–Trudeau (UL was the ID code for the beacon in the city of Kirkland , now the location of Montréal–Trudeau). While these codes make it difficult for the public to associate them with a particular Canadian city, some codes have become popular in usage despite their cryptic nature, particularly at the largest airports. Toronto's code has entered pop culture in

5382-524: The summer of 2017. Oakland International Airport also celebrated its 85th anniversary in 2011, commemorating the first transpacific crossing by air from OAK to Hawaii, which took place on June 29, 1927, in The Bird of Paradise , flown by Hegenberger and Maitland. In 2012 United Airlines pulled out of OAK, consolidating operations at San Francisco International Airport, its Bay Area hub. Arkefly (which later re-branded as TUI Airlines Netherlands) chose OAK as

5460-461: The time, winds in the area blow from the west or north, and aircraft arrive at Oakland from the southeast and depart to the northwest. On occasions when winds blow from the east or south, aircraft operate in the other direction, arriving from the northwest and departing to the southeast. Signature Flight Support is the primary fixed-base operator (FBO) at San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport. Before BBA Aviation acquired Landmark Aviation,

5538-515: The two-letter code of the radio beacons that were the closest to the actual airport, such as YQX in Gander or YXS in Prince George . Four of the ten provincial capital airports in Canada have ended up with codes beginning with YY, including: Canada's largest airport is YYZ for Toronto Pearson (as YTZ was already allocated to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport , the airport was given

5616-529: The use of two letters allowed only a few hundred combinations; a three-letter system of airport codes was implemented. This system allowed for 17,576 permutations, assuming all letters can be used in conjunction with each other. Since the U.S. Navy reserved "N" codes, and to prevent confusion with Federal Communications Commission broadcast call signs , which begin with "W" or "K", the airports of certain U.S. cities whose name begins with one of these letters had to adopt "irregular" airport codes: This practice

5694-466: The words "San Francisco Bay" in its name while the case remained pending (that is, through trial on the merits of the parties' claims). OAK handled 13.38 million passengers in 2019 but is projecting passenger numbers to reach 20 million by 2028, and 25 million by 2035. To handle this expected growth, the Port of Oakland is eyeing a major expansion to consolidate and modernize existing terminals while creating

5772-580: Was built) made its maiden flight on 27 January 1959. After production started, the Federal Aviation Administration mandated additional instrumentation, which Convair added by placing a "raceway" hump on the top of the fuselage, rather than ripping apart the interiors over the wing area. The final assembly of the 880 and 990 took place at the Convair facilities in San Diego, California. The airliner never became widely used, and

5850-506: Was converted to freighter use in 1974, and flew until 1982 with various companies. Another was used to train FAA flight examiners until it was destroyed by a minor explosion in the cargo hold in 1995. Most of the remaining examples were scrapped by 2000. The United States Navy acquired one 880-M in 1980, modifying it as an in-flight tanker. It had been purchased new from Convair by the FAA, and used for 18 years. Unofficially designated UC-880, it

5928-527: Was followed by American Airlines , TWA, United, Transocean Air Lines and Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) . Oakland became a larger center for non-scheduled and supplemental air carriers: some of the largest such companies were based and headquartered in Oakland including Transocean Air Lines , World Airways , Trans International Airlines , Universal Airlines and Saturn Airways . Other large supplemental carriers, such as United States Overseas Airlines , had operational bases in Oakland. Oakland became one of

6006-544: Was later changed to a seasonal schedule. A long-proposed extension of the BART system to the airport opened on November 22, 2014, connecting the BART Coliseum station with a station in the parking lot opposite of the airport terminals. The new system consists of a mostly elevated structure, running the length of Hegenberger Road. In May 2015, Oakland International Airport's Moving Modern program construction commenced

6084-522: Was to reduce the long-running confusion between OAK and Auckland Airport in Auckland , New Zealand . The confusion has been especially severe for Chinese-speaking travelers, because the two cities' names are written identically in simplified Chinese ("奥克兰") and must be distinguished by context. On May 9, the Oakland Board of Port Commissioners unanimously voted and granted final approval for

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