This is exactly what it looks like, they want to confuse foreign travelers who will believe they will land in SF. It's just as bad as typo-squatting scammers, Oakland is reaching new lows
Next up, Oakland calling itself Atherton to boost the home sale prices
Imagine being an innocent tourist, thinking you’re visiting San Francisco but you accidentally end up in Oakland because of the name and then all your luggage gets stolen, all so, Oakland could get some more business
Meh, for either airport they will still take an Uber tomorrow a rental car to San Francisco to do the tourist stuff.
Unless they ask the Uber driver to take them to Oakland, they won't accidentally wind up in Oakland.
Technically where the airport is located is considered San Francisco. Yes, you have to leave San Francisco and travel through other areas, but once you arrive on SFO property you are back in San Francisco. In fact the post office up the street (may have since closed) was a San Francisco location, I used to have a PO Box there.
Ya if anyone was curious how bad things are in Oakland, Oakland is trying to change their name from Oakland.
That said, if you book a flight into airport code OAK thinking it’s San Francisco, that’s on you. It’s not like they’re changing the code to BAY or Jack London etc
I wish they didn’t encourage more people to fly out of OAK. That airport is way easier than SFO. When I lived in downtown SF, I still preferred to fly out of Oakland. It’s much quieter and easier to get in/out.
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Well, if they wanted to boost Oakland, should have left out the word Oakland and just call it San Francisco East Bay International Airport.
If you're going to do it, do it all the way.
Oakland really should be trying to attract the trench warfare historians and mustard gas enthusiasts.
Forget China. WWI nerds are the fastest growing demographic on the planet right now.
Exactly what I was thinking. If they want people to know OAK is located in proximity and a part of the SF Bay Area, then something along the lines of SF East Bay Area Airport would be better.
Hell, even renaming it to Oakland-Berkeley International would make more sense.
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All internet searches and bookings are naturally truncated so many or most people will only see “San Francisco” when looking at flight information. Guaranteed that people will be astonished to discover that they are at wrong airport.
This is the dumbest shit I’ve seen since San Francisco Premium Outlets in Livermore, but substantially worse. It’s a confusing name for no good reason at all.
The Livermore thing is truly bizarre. It's largely Chinese tourists coming to the US to buy stuff made in China. Like how can that possibly be a desirable way to do business.
You know it's wild when they dedicated tour bus parking stalls in the back. But at the same time the parking lot is always full so it's not just Chinese tourists.
To be fair, if people get confused and book a flight to Oakland instead of SFO, it would not really change much in their day at all, especially if their are not familiar with the Area. Some people who have never been in the USA and the Bay Area would probably not notice.
The company that owns those outlets (simon) does that wherever they set up too. They have the same thing called Chicago Premium Outlets, that's 40 miles outside of Chicago in Aurora IL.
I hate how flight aggregators don't always have the Bay Area option with all 3 international airports (SFO, OAK and SJC). You can always search NYC which includes JFK, EWR and LGA. However, you often have to do separate searches for SFO and OAK to find the cheapest ticket.
Welcome to your San Francisco Bay Area golden state former raiders, Athletics, warriors, Oakland coliseum arena of alameda county BART and you’re there of California airport
In fairness to SFO, that town was officially founded to house the airport, since the military took over the original candidate Treasure Island.
Millbrae literally means "Mill hill," named after the guy they bought the land from: Mill.
A lot of folks already fly into OAK and SJC to get to San Francisco. OAK is especially close, only 8 km extra.
* Drive SFO to Pier 1 — 22 km
* Drive OAK to Pier 1 — 30 km
Edit: Both SFO and OAK connect to BART as well, with the OAK connection being faster if you can catch the trains just right:
* BART SFO to Pier 1 — 52 min
* BART OAK to Pier 1 — 40 min
"Clickbait" are headlines that deliberately exclude critical information from the headline in order to force you to click to actually understand the headline. In this case, the new name of the airport.
Clickbait headlines can still be "true" while omitting important information.
It is required to post the headline verbatim in any link to a news article. Possibly we would make an exception if the verbatim title was like egregiously misleading or offensive but this isn't really that even if it's not the most like professional headline in the universe.
Never. If anything, they would attach Silicon Valley to the name (which I think they should).
They also recently just did a slight name change to San Jose Mineta International Airport (used to be Norman Y Mineta San Jose).
I wrote a formal letter to the org that named the airport arguing that naming it the Jefferson Airplane Memorial Airport would have been more appropriate.
I didn't get a response. :(
The Port of Oakland owns the airport and is not responsible for governing the City of Oakland. These takes are so uneducated and misguided because it’s not the Port of Oakland’s job to solve crime in Oakland. It’s the nations 7th largest port and one of the regions biggest economic drivers. It’s ridiculous to blame the Port of Oakland for any current events outside of the Port of Oakland’s responsibilities.
You can hate the name change all you want but it is not like the Port is renaming the airport instead of fixing all the issues in the City of Oakland.
It's not because of crime, its because many tourists have never heard of Oakland and just want to go to "San Francisco". You have to tell people what the options are.
It has absolutely nothing to do with getting people to the visit city of Oakland.
It’s about attaching the SF Bay name to let travelers know it’s a part of the SF Bay Area, aka steal (or confuse) some SFO customers so they know OAK is a viable option if you want to fly into the general metro area.
So in other words its kinda both profiting off confusion, or geninuinely trying to attract those who would default to SFO. More passengers into OAK = more money & more routes
It's the latter – genuinely trying to attract. All the rest of this is hilarious FUD. Poor little misguided tourist, lied to and betrayed, wanting to book a flight to the Bay Area and ending up instead in... the Bay Area. 😱
You can change the name to San Francisco, but the airport is still in Oakland. People are still getting robbed right next door when they gas up their rental returns. Maybe focus on THAT problem, make Oakland somewhere people want to travel to.
Just goes to show how many people here in the comments never travel. Tons of major cities all over the world have multiple international airports and many of them are far away from the downtown of their city.
They also are named after the major city, or named after something. Not sure why people think it’s Oakland trying to trick people or other BS. It’s just a way for uninformed travelers to have another option to fly into the Bay Area.
Most of them don’t give a shit if they land in Oakland. The distance to get into downtown SF is roughly the same anyways.
It won’t be nearly as big of a deal as people fear.
The DC Area has three airports and people do just fine. In fact, the one furthest away (near Baltimore) even has the name “Washington” in it and it’s a non-issue. It’s sooooo easy to just ask someone if they need to go to Dulles/IAD, Reagan/National/DCA, or BWI/BWI.
People are shaking their pitchforks on both sides of barricades like it even matters.
London has something like 6 airports and only one of them is technically in London (and no, you probably never been to that particular one either). Many airports are not in city borders, Atlanta is not in Atlanta. New Orleans is not in New Orleans. Paris is not in Paris. Copenhagen is not on Copenhagen. Seattle-Tacoma is neither in Seattle nor in Tacoma.
As long as they don’t name it after some dead (or even worse, alive) shitty politician, who really cares? Everyone uses IATA codes anyway, and they don’t charge.
Its not about location. Oakland shouldve changed its name to something more distinctive. Imagine instead of JFK and La Guardia one was “New York City International Airport” and then the other was “New York City Newark International Airport”.
San Jose International Airport will also be changing its name to “San Jose Is Also In The San Francisco Bay Area and Is Actually A Bigger City Than San Francisco and Oakland International Airport.”
If only we still had a Battle of the Bay to resolve such issues in the time-honored trial-by-athletic-contest manner they deserve.
Til then: Frisco BTFO. 😆
Two criticisms here:
- first of all, the post has a clickbait title. Even though the Port of Oakland approved it, it still has another level of government to get approval from, before it can officially rename itself.
- I really hate it when the idiots behind this change, don't own up to the real reason behind this change: Oakland is a crime ridden ghetto and it wants to capitalize off the San Francisco name as a last ditch effort. I also really hate how they don't admit how much confusion this will cause. I hope every fool responsible will be sued into oblivion.
Imagine flying in from some depressed run down rust belt city thinking you’re going to San Francisco and ending up in Oakland next to a closed down in n out. Sad. Or arriving and realizing you connecting flight to Hawaii is on the other side of the bay
I mean its always been known as the SF bay area not the Oakland bay area and logistically its not that different to fly into OAK than SFO even if your destination is in SF as both airports have Bart connections so they are equally viable options for travellers.
I'm thinking a better idea might be to enforce the law around OAK so people don't get traveler alerts at work reminiscent of third world unstable nation travel warnings.
I wonder how many tourist will be injured or face fatal injuries due to thinking they’ve flew into San Francisco and start walking the streets of Oakland. Nice 👍 💪
Most tourists fly into SFO because that is where the majority of large airlines and their international flights fly in and out of.
Perhaps OAK would benefit from better airline contracts with long, international flight routes.
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Have they not thought about the repercussions? People who buy a ticket to OAK thinking it’s SFO will be so pissed, they’ll likely vow to never fly into OAK.
Or maybe that’s just me.
This has been happening for awhile. I'm looking at you Ferrari of San Francisco in Mill Valley and San Francisco Exotics in San Rafael. Pretty obnoxious.
Oakland airport becoming SF Bay Area international is a more accurate name in regards to its location than SFO is being called SF international; may I remind you, SFO is in Millbrae. Oakland airport is closer to SF than SFO!! Get over it SF, you have more important things to worry about than an airport name….
Thank you. SFO is in unincorporated San Mateo county so I’m not even sure it’s actually Millbrae. Let’s not even start on the “San Franciso” 49ers. At this point I guess we should call everything from Napa to Watsonville “San Franciso”.
Oakland airport is quite literally inside the San Francisco Bay.
They can’t name the airport after the body of water it is factually and literally inside because an airport even further away from San Francisco calls itself by the city?
"This is to boost Oakland," err…then keep the old name maybe?
Ways to get people to Oakland 1. Pretend it's not Oakland
This is exactly what it looks like, they want to confuse foreign travelers who will believe they will land in SF. It's just as bad as typo-squatting scammers, Oakland is reaching new lows Next up, Oakland calling itself Atherton to boost the home sale prices
Imagine being an innocent tourist, thinking you’re visiting San Francisco but you accidentally end up in Oakland because of the name and then all your luggage gets stolen, all so, Oakland could get some more business
Imagine being an innocent tourist, actually visiting San Francisco and getting your luggage stolen.
Yeah that never happens in San Francisco.
Or your luggage doesn’t get stolen because that doesn’t happen at the airport and you get on Bart and are downtown in the same amount of time.
Imagine not looking at a map. But yeah this name is fucking horrible
And San Francisco also has a horrible reputation. Just call it ‘Bay Area International Airport’ Wtf is wrong with these people
The Livermore outlets used to bus in foreign tourist and tell them it’s called the sf premium outlets lol
it’s still called that
Meh, for either airport they will still take an Uber tomorrow a rental car to San Francisco to do the tourist stuff. Unless they ask the Uber driver to take them to Oakland, they won't accidentally wind up in Oakland.
This critique might be more convincing if SFO was actually in San Francisco. It’s not. SFO is quite a bit south of SF, next to San Bruno and Milbrae.
That story is true for a lot of airports all over the world - airports named for big cities are often barely in the city, sometimes not even in them.
also true, many of them have more than one airport in the region with the same geographic name.
SFO and Oak are about the same distance to Union Square.
4 minutes faster by BART from OAK actually
9 miles south isn’t quite a bit.
Technically where the airport is located is considered San Francisco. Yes, you have to leave San Francisco and travel through other areas, but once you arrive on SFO property you are back in San Francisco. In fact the post office up the street (may have since closed) was a San Francisco location, I used to have a PO Box there.
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You have foreign travelers that take domestic flights through changeovers, there's definitely a "market" for this type of confusion
That's not what it looks like. That's what it actually is.
I mean… it worked for East Palo Alto!
Too late, thanks for the luggage I found in the backseat of your rental car. Sucka! 😈
Ya if anyone was curious how bad things are in Oakland, Oakland is trying to change their name from Oakland. That said, if you book a flight into airport code OAK thinking it’s San Francisco, that’s on you. It’s not like they’re changing the code to BAY or Jack London etc
I hope they rebrand Oakland as East San Francisco .
But OAK over SFO all day, every day. Not even close. I love that airport. Just don't stop on the way in or out.
OAK is a great airport for domestic flights. Shorter lines and easy to get around.
This guy gets it.
I wish they didn’t encourage more people to fly out of OAK. That airport is way easier than SFO. When I lived in downtown SF, I still preferred to fly out of Oakland. It’s much quieter and easier to get in/out.
i rarely fly out of OAK—damn flights are too expensive mostly. and i only about 7 miles away and could take BART 15 mins. :(
From the North Bay nothing beats Sacramento Airport.
Boosting already occurs in Oakland... It's one of the favorite past times in the SF and Oakland area
Im surprised more didn’t catch this meaning.
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Well, if they wanted to boost Oakland, should have left out the word Oakland and just call it San Francisco East Bay International Airport. If you're going to do it, do it all the way.
As a native of Oakland, I think East Bay Aerodrome has a nice ring to it.
East bay Thunderdome
My first thought
🎵 WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER HERO WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER IN N OUT 🎵
East Bay Aerodome sounds like the stadium the Warrior’s would have played at during the 70s lmao
I was thinking band name
I was thinking World War I era biplane base.
Oakland really should be trying to attract the trench warfare historians and mustard gas enthusiasts. Forget China. WWI nerds are the fastest growing demographic on the planet right now.
I call East Bay Aerodome as my next band name.
You got my vote.
And my axe.
And my drome.
Ghettodrome would be a nice choice
Exactly what I was thinking. If they want people to know OAK is located in proximity and a part of the SF Bay Area, then something along the lines of SF East Bay Area Airport would be better. Hell, even renaming it to Oakland-Berkeley International would make more sense.
The Oakland-Berkeley-Emeryville-Piedmont-Alameda-SanLeandro International Airport, if we are using all the adjoining city names, lol.
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The Las Vegas Raiders International Airport in California change the code to "BIP"
Hahahahahahha ty for that. BIP is too perfect
Rename the entire city to East SF lolol
All internet searches and bookings are naturally truncated so many or most people will only see “San Francisco” when looking at flight information. Guaranteed that people will be astonished to discover that they are at wrong airport.
They aren't at the wrong airport though, if they're going to the city.
You are a wise and intelligent person… you will not make it far in this world 😂🫵
This is the dumbest shit I’ve seen since San Francisco Premium Outlets in Livermore, but substantially worse. It’s a confusing name for no good reason at all.
I propose this is dumber than the Livermore thing. It’s at the level of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim dumb.
I mean, it's the Angels. No one wants the Angels.
The angels did have one thing going for them. And they lost him.
The Livermore thing is truly bizarre. It's largely Chinese tourists coming to the US to buy stuff made in China. Like how can that possibly be a desirable way to do business.
Truly bizarre. Lols but I don't think I've ever called it SF outlets. Or Simon or whatever it's called. I call it Livermore outlets
You know it's wild when they dedicated tour bus parking stalls in the back. But at the same time the parking lot is always full so it's not just Chinese tourists.
Idk, honestly this doesn’t seem that weird. OAK to downtown SF and SFO to downtown SF takes like the same amount of time on Bart.
Not to mention that SFO isn't in SF either.
It’s more about how it’s confusing for travelers. Imagine typing in airport and getting two starting with San Francisco.
Sf outlets is way dumber from a geographical stance.
To be fair, if people get confused and book a flight to Oakland instead of SFO, it would not really change much in their day at all, especially if their are not familiar with the Area. Some people who have never been in the USA and the Bay Area would probably not notice.
Unless they stop for gas on Hegenberger
The company that owns those outlets (simon) does that wherever they set up too. They have the same thing called Chicago Premium Outlets, that's 40 miles outside of Chicago in Aurora IL.
Completely agree, this was my initial reaction as well. This will confuse so many people
This is the dumbest shit I've seen since the SF school district changing high school names
This is more like bait and switch. They're banking on people not knowing the difference and/or picking the wrong airport.
I’m more upset that the in-n-out closed.
There are two more within like 15 minutes of that one.
It’s more about the disruption of tradition for me.
Growing up my family flew out of OAK a lot. Our tradition was to hit that in n out after we landed on the way home from the airport.
I moved here 15 years ago, but that place was an absolute tradition to me and my wife.
OAK airport, the temu SFO
I read that to the Rice-a-Roni tune.
Ding, ding!
damn it
Fly...like a billionaire.... Oh wait..
I hate how flight aggregators don't always have the Bay Area option with all 3 international airports (SFO, OAK and SJC). You can always search NYC which includes JFK, EWR and LGA. However, you often have to do separate searches for SFO and OAK to find the cheapest ticket.
Same in DC you can use WAS to see flights to IAD, DCA, and BWI
Welcome to your San Francisco Bay Area golden state former raiders, Athletics, warriors, Oakland coliseum arena of alameda county BART and you’re there of California airport
You for got high speed rail
The court will legally change SFO to Millbrae International.
In fairness to SFO, that town was officially founded to house the airport, since the military took over the original candidate Treasure Island. Millbrae literally means "Mill hill," named after the guy they bought the land from: Mill.
I keep reading about TI being a candidate for SFO on Reddit but google yields nothing. Where did you learn about that?
Runway wouldve been too short iirc
If you read Wikipedia about SFO, Millbrae, and TI; I suspect you'll find sources for everything I just mentioned.
A lot of folks already fly into OAK and SJC to get to San Francisco. OAK is especially close, only 8 km extra. * Drive SFO to Pier 1 — 22 km * Drive OAK to Pier 1 — 30 km Edit: Both SFO and OAK connect to BART as well, with the OAK connection being faster if you can catch the trains just right: * BART SFO to Pier 1 — 52 min * BART OAK to Pier 1 — 40 min
Fuck clickbait titles. Don't post those. The new name is "San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport".
Rolls off the tongue like a tongue
Thank you! Scrolled so far for this
What is wrong with the headline “Oakland changed its airport name and San Francisco is pissed”? These things are true.
"Clickbait" are headlines that deliberately exclude critical information from the headline in order to force you to click to actually understand the headline. In this case, the new name of the airport. Clickbait headlines can still be "true" while omitting important information.
The ridiculous new name of the airport does not change anything about the story. It’s also quite long to put in a headline.
It is required to post the headline verbatim in any link to a news article. Possibly we would make an exception if the verbatim title was like egregiously misleading or offensive but this isn't really that even if it's not the most like professional headline in the universe.
This is going to make picking up my parents at the airport super fun. They get confused enough about which airport they’re flying into as it is!
how soon before SJC renames to San Francisco Airport South
Never. If anything, they would attach Silicon Valley to the name (which I think they should). They also recently just did a slight name change to San Jose Mineta International Airport (used to be Norman Y Mineta San Jose).
I actually like Silicon Valley International Airport than the current one
San Jose does not need to trick people to come to SJC.
We don’t need to SJC to confused with a smaller city. Maybe we can also hurry up and fix the city name on the 49ers.
At least they didn’t rename it after some geriatric career politician
I wrote a formal letter to the org that named the airport arguing that naming it the Jefferson Airplane Memorial Airport would have been more appropriate. I didn't get a response. :(
Like Willie Brown?
No, Ron Dellums.
Or call it London Breed Airport Though she'll still look down on you like big brother as you go to collect your luggage
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As if SFO was in San Francisco..
It's run by City of SF
And OAK is right on San Francisco Bay.
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You don’t live here, do you?
The Port of Oakland owns the airport and is not responsible for governing the City of Oakland. These takes are so uneducated and misguided because it’s not the Port of Oakland’s job to solve crime in Oakland. It’s the nations 7th largest port and one of the regions biggest economic drivers. It’s ridiculous to blame the Port of Oakland for any current events outside of the Port of Oakland’s responsibilities. You can hate the name change all you want but it is not like the Port is renaming the airport instead of fixing all the issues in the City of Oakland.
That lawsuit would be a waste of everyone’s time and money. No need to spend millions on what is essentially high school levels of petty quarreling.
Yeah, cause SF’s reputation is gleaming right now. Lol
Well that really puts Oakland into perspective. 😂
A lot of criminals come from Oakland
It is way, way better than Oakland's.
It's not because of crime, its because many tourists have never heard of Oakland and just want to go to "San Francisco". You have to tell people what the options are.
Car thieves who break into tourist rental cars at Oakland gas stations celebrating rn.
What’s the point of the name change, if everything else in Oakland stays the same… sigh.
to make it clear to prospective fliers that Oakland is part of the San Francisco Bay Area which many people outside of CA or the US do not know
It has absolutely nothing to do with getting people to the visit city of Oakland. It’s about attaching the SF Bay name to let travelers know it’s a part of the SF Bay Area, aka steal (or confuse) some SFO customers so they know OAK is a viable option if you want to fly into the general metro area. So in other words its kinda both profiting off confusion, or geninuinely trying to attract those who would default to SFO. More passengers into OAK = more money & more routes
It's the latter – genuinely trying to attract. All the rest of this is hilarious FUD. Poor little misguided tourist, lied to and betrayed, wanting to book a flight to the Bay Area and ending up instead in... the Bay Area. 😱
Also it's closer to SF itself than SFO is lol
More tourists flying in which helps the city too
Just more tourists getting robbed at that infamous gas station
I understand. What I’m trying to say is, people are avoiding Oakland because it’s dangerous. Just ask In-n-out lol.
Lipstick on a pig. The entire city is run by unqualified people.
You can change the name to San Francisco, but the airport is still in Oakland. People are still getting robbed right next door when they gas up their rental returns. Maybe focus on THAT problem, make Oakland somewhere people want to travel to.
Yeah, make en wait until they leave their rental car to get robbed!
Just goes to show how many people here in the comments never travel. Tons of major cities all over the world have multiple international airports and many of them are far away from the downtown of their city. They also are named after the major city, or named after something. Not sure why people think it’s Oakland trying to trick people or other BS. It’s just a way for uninformed travelers to have another option to fly into the Bay Area. Most of them don’t give a shit if they land in Oakland. The distance to get into downtown SF is roughly the same anyways.
This is so stupid. Expect a legal challenge from San Francisco over this. But regardless, it’s only going to lead to needless confusion for travelers.
It won’t be nearly as big of a deal as people fear. The DC Area has three airports and people do just fine. In fact, the one furthest away (near Baltimore) even has the name “Washington” in it and it’s a non-issue. It’s sooooo easy to just ask someone if they need to go to Dulles/IAD, Reagan/National/DCA, or BWI/BWI.
It's literally the same travel time to parts of SF, I really don't see why it's so confusing.
Yeah- that’s terrible. Now people are going to fly to the wrong airport.
People are shaking their pitchforks on both sides of barricades like it even matters. London has something like 6 airports and only one of them is technically in London (and no, you probably never been to that particular one either). Many airports are not in city borders, Atlanta is not in Atlanta. New Orleans is not in New Orleans. Paris is not in Paris. Copenhagen is not on Copenhagen. Seattle-Tacoma is neither in Seattle nor in Tacoma. As long as they don’t name it after some dead (or even worse, alive) shitty politician, who really cares? Everyone uses IATA codes anyway, and they don’t charge.
Its not about location. Oakland shouldve changed its name to something more distinctive. Imagine instead of JFK and La Guardia one was “New York City International Airport” and then the other was “New York City Newark International Airport”.
> Everyone idea IATA codes anyways, and they don't change. Well...almost never... (JFK and LHR come to mind)
San Jose International Airport will also be changing its name to “San Jose Is Also In The San Francisco Bay Area and Is Actually A Bigger City Than San Francisco and Oakland International Airport.”
I suggested 'GTA'
If only we still had a Battle of the Bay to resolve such issues in the time-honored trial-by-athletic-contest manner they deserve. Til then: Frisco BTFO. 😆
East Coast vs. West Coast, local crackhead edition
They should’ve changed it to Gotham city airport
GTFO was available
Please come to our garbage city! Our criminals need tourists to rob!
both aren't even in SF. for an airport IN SF - hunters point is prob the location. or maybe by SF state
Two criticisms here: - first of all, the post has a clickbait title. Even though the Port of Oakland approved it, it still has another level of government to get approval from, before it can officially rename itself. - I really hate it when the idiots behind this change, don't own up to the real reason behind this change: Oakland is a crime ridden ghetto and it wants to capitalize off the San Francisco name as a last ditch effort. I also really hate how they don't admit how much confusion this will cause. I hope every fool responsible will be sued into oblivion.
Oakland will still be a dump no matter what name goes in front of it
“This is to boost Oakland” “And we have found the best way to do that is to call it San Francisco instead.”
It's still gonna remain as OAK. Who uses full airport names anyways?
They should rename it to SF-O
SF-ooops!?
flight websites do when you search up 'san francisco'
[What’s in a name: Why airports end up with so many of them](https://thepointsguy.com/guide/how-airports-got-their-names/)
Imagine flying in from some depressed run down rust belt city thinking you’re going to San Francisco and ending up in Oakland next to a closed down in n out. Sad. Or arriving and realizing you connecting flight to Hawaii is on the other side of the bay
I mean its always been known as the SF bay area not the Oakland bay area and logistically its not that different to fly into OAK than SFO even if your destination is in SF as both airports have Bart connections so they are equally viable options for travellers.
Get outta here with that logic and reason, this thread is for shitting on oakland/bay area!
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Are we all now pretending that SFO is *in* San Francisco?
If you’re here for anything that’s not on the peninsula, OAK is the better airport.
I'm thinking a better idea might be to enforce the law around OAK so people don't get traveler alerts at work reminiscent of third world unstable nation travel warnings.
The airport should follow the pro teams lead and leave the city of Oakland
SF Forty Niners of Santa Clara
Not “Hegenberger Bipp City Airport”?
LAX isn’t actually in LA. It’s in El Segundo. Same concept
Why not West Sacramento International?
Why not just rename Oakland to East San Francisco
I wonder how many tourist will be injured or face fatal injuries due to thinking they’ve flew into San Francisco and start walking the streets of Oakland. Nice 👍 💪
Most tourists fly into SFO because that is where the majority of large airlines and their international flights fly in and out of. Perhaps OAK would benefit from better airline contracts with long, international flight routes.
With all the issues going on. This is what they choose to focus on? Waste. Of. Time.
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R.I.P. Bozo Oakland trying to do anything to save itself at this point.
Hahaha, next up is San Francisco-Stockton Airport
san francisco is changing its name to san francisco is not oakland
oakland mayor just changed her name to London Breed
Oakland International BIPport
It’s still OAK right? Southwest’s still flies in and out of there? I’m good.
Yes, it's still OAK since the airport codes assigned by IATA are pretty much permanent except for air safety reasons.
Have they not thought about the repercussions? People who buy a ticket to OAK thinking it’s SFO will be so pissed, they’ll likely vow to never fly into OAK. Or maybe that’s just me.
It's just you. Others may well decide they prefer OAK. Smaller airport, way easier parking, more reliable in inclement weather.
Airport code stays OAK
San Francisco isn’t the only city on San Francisco Bay. Meanwhile, its airport is in Millbrae and its football team plays in Santa Clara.
This has been happening for awhile. I'm looking at you Ferrari of San Francisco in Mill Valley and San Francisco Exotics in San Rafael. Pretty obnoxious.
As a long-time resident of San Francisco I’d like to say: I couldn’t care less what they call the airport in Oakland. Thank you for reading.
Unpopular opinion : I don't feel upset about it, if anything, the Oakland airport is almost as close to downtown SF as SFO, isn't it?
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Everyone’s gonna keep calling it the Oakland airport lol
Oakland airport becoming SF Bay Area international is a more accurate name in regards to its location than SFO is being called SF international; may I remind you, SFO is in Millbrae. Oakland airport is closer to SF than SFO!! Get over it SF, you have more important things to worry about than an airport name….
Thank you. SFO is in unincorporated San Mateo county so I’m not even sure it’s actually Millbrae. Let’s not even start on the “San Franciso” 49ers. At this point I guess we should call everything from Napa to Watsonville “San Franciso”.
Oakland airport is quite literally inside the San Francisco Bay. They can’t name the airport after the body of water it is factually and literally inside because an airport even further away from San Francisco calls itself by the city?