Oakland International Airport

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The Oakland International Airport is the international airport of the city of Oakland in California. He is one of three airports in the metropolitan region of San Francisco Bay Area and serves primarily low cost airlines and air freight.

History

The Oakland International Airport was inaugurated in 1927 by Charles Lindbergh, in the same year took Boeing Air Transport, a predecessor of United Airlines, the first scheduled flights on. 1943 took over the armed forces of the United States, the airport and took him from now on as base for military flights to the Pacific Islands. The Civilian air traffic had to resort to the airport San Francisco and did not return until 1946.

The first modern terminal, the current Terminal 1 was opened in 1962. During the Vietnam War World Airways used the Oakland Airport as a hub for the transport of troops to Southeast Asia. After the war, passenger numbers eased, but the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 made ​​the airport attractive to the emerging low cost airlines. 1985, a second terminal was opened in 1989 and is flying with Southwest Airlines for the first time the airline to Oakland Airport, which carries over most of the passengers today.

Operation

At Oakland Airport mainly compounds on the U.S. mainland and Hawaii, as well as to Mexico available today. Largest airline is Southwest Airlines, which uses the entire terminal 2 alone. In addition, Oakland is a base of the logistics company FedEx, which performs from here air cargo flights within the U.S. and to Asia. Three of the four start and runways are also offered exclusively for general aviation are available which makes up a large part of the flight movements.