• Address:
  1 Airport Dr
  Oakland, CA 94621
  United States
• Website for Metropolitan Oakland: http://www.flyoakland.com
• Email Address: http://www.oaklandairport.com/suggestions.cfm
• Phone: 5105633300
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Oakland International Airport OAK is located 4.6 miles south of the business district of Oakland, a city in Alameda County, California, and accessible via Interstate 880 (exit 36 Hegenberger Road). It is one of three international airports in the San Francisco Bay area and serves the East Bay area.
Travelers looking for a low-cost and low-key alternative to the San Francisco International Airport often turn to Oakland International Airport. OAK offers more daily flights between the Bay Area and the Los Angeles area than any other Bay Area airport. OAK is also the closest airport to nearly half of San Francisco's metropolitan area residents. With four runways, various major and low-cost airlines serve the airport with numerous direct and connecting flights to all points of the globe. 2008's economic downturn caused two airlines frequenting the Airport to go bankrupt and a few others to pull out. However, the Airport has been able to replace those gaps and added even more choices.

Airline-Enhanced Facilities & Services for Special Security Lanes include: (a) in Terminal 1--Premium customers traveling on airlines located in Terminal 1 also have their own free priority security lane. The separate lane, which expedites seasoned travelers through screening, is offered to first-class and premier-level frequent flyer members traveling on the following airlines: Alaska, Delta, Hawaiian, Mexicana, United and US Airways. The premium customer lane in Terminal 1 is clearly marked with signs. (b) in Terminal 2--Southwest Airlines offers its branded 'Fly By' priority security lane to its Business Select customers and Rapid Reward A-List members. This free and separate Fly By lane allows travelers to reach the screening process more quickly. To enter the Fly By lane, show your Southwest Business Select boarding pass and Rapid Rewards A-List identification card to the TSA attendant.

Passenger terminals 1 (for all airlines other than Southwest) and 2 (for Southwest) are connected and offer the following amenities: WiFi access throughout; ATMs, business center, shoeshine, smoking area, Information points, TCC phones, telephone reservation board, mail boxes, and restaurants/bars/lounges and duty-free shops, shops and newsstands. (Gates 20-25 have additional restaurants).

If you need to pick up a passenger at the Airport, use the 30-minute Park & Call Zone (Cell Phone Lot), within easy walk to the passenger terminal--stay with your car until your party collected luggage and calls you to be picked up at the first or second curb. Directions: From Airport Drive take the second exit ramp for John Glenn Drive. Go straight at the stoplight; follow signs to the Park & Call entrance, on your right near the Oakland Maintenance Center. From Terminals follow signs for Economy lot/Park & Call. Turn left under the Airport Drive overpass, then turn left on John Glenn Drive. The Park & Call entrance is on your right near the Oakland Maintenance Center.

Other parking options include Hourly for short-term or overnight parking; Daily for extended-stay parking; and Economy long-term parking. With the recent relocation of the Economy lot closer to the Airport, most spaces are within walking distance to the front doors of the terminals. Shuttle buses run between the terminals and the Daily and Economy lots. Valet Parking is available between both terminals on th esecond curb. Nearing the airport, tune to TIPS Radio 1700AM for current airport traffic, parking availability and security information.
Disabled-reserved spaces nearest to the terminals are in the Hourly lot, available on a first-come, first-served basis at the lower Daily rate. Additional disabled-reserved spaces are located at the front section of the Daily, ValuPark and Economy lots. A reduced rate is also available to disabled customers using valet services for the first four hours only.

The Rental Car Center is located on Langley Street, off Doolittle Drive/Hegenberger Drive. Rental Car Shuttle buses run ever 10 minutes between the terminals and the Rental Car Center (and on demand 1:30am-4:30am). To pick up your rental car take the Rental Car Shuttle from terminals to the Rental Car Center and transfer to off-airport rental car agency shuttle. To drop off rental cars take the off-airport rental car agency shuttle to Rental Car Center to transfer to Rental Car Shuttle for transportation to terminals.

To get from the Airport to your destination, you have the choice of renting a car, taking a taxi or limo, or AirBART shuttle buses and AC Transit's Lines 50 (final destination Bay Fair BART, not Fruitvale BART) and Line 805 buses take passengers between the terminal and the Coliseum/Oakland Airport station. AirBART now has a single stop located halfway between terminals 1 and 2, on the third curb. The bus has a layover of a few minutes depending on the passenger load. AC Transit has one quick stop with no layover at the same location between the terminals but on the fourth curb. AirBART generally comes more often than AC Transit buses. AirBART and Line 50 run during regular hours from about 5am to midnight, whereas Line 805 is a night bus that runs from midnight to 5 am.

The airport’s two existing terminal facilities are designed to accommodate only eight million passengers, therefore a large-scale Terminal Improvement Project is underway that will renovate and expand Terminal 2 and construct a new multi-level parking garage.
Furthermore, the Airport is partnering with BART on the BART-Oakland International Airport Connector (or simply 'Connector'), an elevated train/people mover, which is to go into service by 2013, replacing AirBART bus service.  When it is in operation it will connect to BART transportation , take only a few minutes & come around every 8 minutes. Stops are planned for Doolittle and Coliseum stations.