The Port of Oakland will consider changing the name of the city’s airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport from the current official title of Metropolitan Oakland International Airport.
While the airport code would remain OAK, the new name would “boost inbound travelers’ geographic awareness of the airport’s location on the San Francisco Bay,” Port Commission President Barbara Leslie said in a statement Friday.
The airport has lost routes, including 39 of 54 that were added from July 2008 to March 2024, Interim Director of Aviation Craig Simon said.
“Market research and interviews with airline partners have shown that routes have not performed as well as they should have due to the lack of geographic awareness, making air carriers reluctant to sustain and add new routes in Oakland,” he said.
Rechristening the airport would protect 30,000 direct jobs and $1.6 billion in economic impact on the region, Leslie said.
The port’s commissioners will consider the name change at their April 11 meeting.
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It’s because Oakland is in the name, not because travelers don’t know where it is, the problem is they DO know where it is. More ramifications of a terrible liberal run craphole of a city and state.
Exactly! OAK has a long and prosperous history. When first built, it had the longest runway in the WORLD at 7,020 Ft. What is wrong with OAK is Oakland’s DEI style Management. …. and the fact that it is at the “bullets flying” intersection of Hegenberger and 73rd, and you have to drive through that to get to the nearest “bullets flying even faster” MacArthur Freeway! And…she appears to be a professional DEI political dingbat.
https://twitter.com/IFlyOAKland/status/1773852465965985921 Dingbat alert.
NO EXCUSES,
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Was she being held hostage? Was she trying to comunicate an alternate message to the public. She was shaking her head “NO” most of the time.
Anything to try and freshen the Oakland stigma? 🙁
Well, California renamed food stamps as ‘CalFresh’… maybe they can renamed Oakland as “FreshOak. See, liberals think you could fool people by just changing the name.. reputation always catches up. Oakland’s got issues all cause by the city leaders, yet they’re oblivious to it all and have no clue on how to fix it, but rather than admit the obvious failure, go even further and more decisively down the bad failed path. That’s lunacy. And that’s what liberals seem to do best.
“Market research has shown….” How much is this gonna cost?
Yet they continue to ignore the crime in the area.
I think they call this putting lipstick on a pig.
“Do not address crime, no matter what.”
– City Of Oakland Motto
Fully understand wanting to disassociate with Oakland.
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But, putting the name or the words San Francisco in the title could cause substantial confusion for international travelers.
Nobody wants to come to just plain Oakland International?
The FAA designation for that Airport is OAK. That designation is difficult to change.
People can name the place anything they want.
I’d suggest Getto International Airport.
ABE,
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The article said the airport will retain the OAK designation.
That’s perfect. We will have 2 SFOs. Half of us will go to the wrong airport.
SFBO
Just listen for the gunfire, pretty easy actually.
Most name changes are dumb and/or costly for residents and businesses (Funston Playground to Moscone; Army Street to Caeser Chavez Blvd) but this one takes the cake. How about Oakland International Airport on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay, south of Treasure Island and near Alameda. Or just leave it the hell alone! Oakland International Airport sats it all.
…. describing where the airport is – “you know, the one in the ghetto on the east side of the bay”
“Market research and interviews with airline partners have shown that routes have not performed as well as they should have due to the lack of geographic awareness”. The opposite is probably true. Routes have not performed as well because of geographic awareness. Its in Oakland!!!!!!
Leave it up to the libs to make a superficial change in a futile attempt to disguise their fundamental failings. You can put lipstick on a pig and call it Gertrude, but it’s still a pig.
Oakland is losing business because of their soft on crime policies.
So the BO of SF.
Some articles on oakland’s decline.
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‘This is America’s most dangerous gas station –
And it’s based in Oakland’
https://tinyurl.com/mr56xvv7
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‘Denny’s closes Oakland restaurant that’s been open for 54 YEARS because California city is now so dangerous, weeks after In-N-Out shuttered nearby location over soaring crime’
http://tinyurl.com/3nt9u767
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‘Wild moment brazen thieves drag Bank of America ATM through streets of Oakland in broad daylight – just half a mile from In-N-Out Burger that’s being shuttered due to soaring crime’
dailymail http://tinyurl.com/32euvept
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‘Oakland becomes even MORE of a Mad Max hellscape as robbers CHASE driver in multiple cars, ram him and then steal his belongings when vehicle flipped and crashed’
https://tinyurl.com/yc7v8232
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‘Dying Oakland’s restaurants are losing thousands a week from diners leaving mid-meal because their cars have been robbed, with locals shunning Dem-run city’s downtown, as property prices tank and woke DA faces recall’
dailymail https://tinyurl.com/3dmbu74t
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‘Dying Oakland’s restaurants are losing thousands a week from diners leaving mid-meal because their cars have been robbed, with locals shunning Dem-run city’s downtown, as property prices tank and woke DA faces recall’
dailymail https://tinyurl.com/3dmbu74t
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Last republican mayor of oakland left office in 1966.
oakland is the result of allowing DEMs to run a city.
With the Bear as a mascot
We are sorry, . . . . . the Bear is no longer available
https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/31371
Add Haiti between Bay and Oakland for a more accurate description. Someone at the Port has a sign contract.
I am sure hordes of foreigners won’t accidently fly to this airport thinking they are going to San Francisco.
It will work wonders just like we have seen with West Pittsburg becoming Bay Point
OR Antioch…. North East Oakland…
LAZY K,
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The Bay Point of today was first known as Bella Vista, which included the areas known as McAvoy and Ambrose, then it became West Pittsburg, before being rebranded as Bay Point about 30 years ago, while the name Bay Point was the original name for the town of Port Chicago, before it was rebranded as Port Chicago during the Great Depression.
Wasn’t it called “Shore Acres” at one time?
Vague memory of it.
Shore Acres is the name of the subdivision tract.
DD,
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I believe Shore Acres is the name of one of the oldest, if not the oldest, subdivisions in Bay Point. However, I do remember seeing several old maps with “Shore Acres” shown on the maps as though “Shore Acres” was a town or city, because we don’t normally see subdivisions on street maps. These older maps and some current maps also show the areas of “McAvoy” and “Ambrose,” which had more to do with the railroads in the area 100+ years ago.
Putting lipstick on a pig.
….and fixed.
It’s a good airport. I like flying out of there the most. Don’t worry it’ll eventually be named after some toad politician like San Jose is.
“San Francisco International Airport at Oakland.”
AD
JG27 AD,
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It looks like their minds are made up and they’re intent on adding San Francisco to the name and keeping Oakland in the name.
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“Greater San Francisco-Oakland-East Bay Area Region International Airport.”
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East San Francisco-Oakland-Bay Area International Airport.
Should be trans visibility international airport
It’s the easiest airport in the Bay Area to fly in and out of and the closest to Claycord. I have flown in and out of OAK probably well over 200 times, including this past January. SJC is almost as user friendly, but it’s farther away from here. Note that they recently changed the name of SJC from Mineta San Jose International Airport to San Jose Mineta International Airport because most people had no idea who Norman Mineta was and were somewhat confused about where the airport was.
Oakland has or is about to hit rock bottom, so hopefully sanity will prevail and it will begin to turn around. Leave the name alone.
CLAYDEN,
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When Norm Mineta would fly out of SJC with his grandchildren they always asked him if he owned the airport because it had his name on it.
Whatever floats yer sky-coffin.
Wokeland Air Fields or maybe
Shooting Skyport?
Too long and too easily confused with SFO. Dumb idea, as usual, from people with nothing better to do than change things that don’t need changing.
CITY NAMES MATTER!
Geographic awareness for people that don’t have a phone, big target market there, big impact, these people are so smart. I just ‘googled’ traveling to the San Francisco bay area airports. Both SFO and OAK show up. duh.
Oakland has muddied it’s name, no one wants to visit.
“Bay Point” aka Gun Point
This is like Diddy rebranding himself Weinstein Diddy.
Apparently Newsom had an epiphany that maybe, just maybe, people avoid Oakland because of crime. Therefore he is spending millions to install 500 new security Cameras all over the city to “hold people to account”.
Watch for upcoming fire sale deals on security cameras via Facebook marketplace.
Renaming the airport would protect 30,000 jobs?
I call 💩💩💩💩💩! Prove it!
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