Oakland International Airport OAK 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 greater Los Angeles than any other Bay Area airport. It is also the closest airport to nearly half of San Francisco's metropolitan area residents. The Airport is also the first one in Northern California to offer EV charging services as part of its ChargePoint Network, which includes real-time charging station status & reservations.

Oakland Airport 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). A train-to-plane connector is being constructed by BART & will, by 2014, connect the Airport with the Coliseum & Doolittle Station.
Nearing the airport, tune to TIPS Radio 1700AM for current airport traffic, parking availability and security information.

With four runways and an estimated 9.5 million passengers a year, Oakland International Airport is served by various major and low-cost airlines offering numerous direct and connecting flights throughout the country, with connections to all points of the globe.
Hawaii is now a key market for Oakland International, and flights are offered to Maui (OGG), Hawaii (KOA) and Kauai (LIH) by Alaska Airlines; Hawaiian Airlines offers daily flights to Oahu (HNL) and Maui (OGG) . Furthermore, low-cost airline Volaris offers daily flights to Mexico City, and TUI's ArkeFly starts OAK-AMS Amsterdam service in June 2012.

The Oakland International passenger terminal complex consists of 2 terminals - T1 & T2. Both terminals are connected to each other at post-security & gate areas, thereby arriving passengers transferring to another flight won't have to go through security check again. (For detailed terminal information, click on 'Terminal Map'.)

Other parking options at Oakland Airport include a 30-minute Park & Call Zone (a/k/a 'Cell Phone Lot), the Premier parking garage, hour parking lot, daily/long-term lot, Economy lot, with shuttles between terminals and Daily & Economy lots. (For more parking information, click on 'Airport Parking'.)  NOTE: midweek parking between Thanksgiving Day and December holidays in 2011 is free if you register online and print parking coupon.

The Rental Car Center is located on 7600 Earhart Road (Zip code 94621). 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 (call from terminals or Rental Car Center for transfer). 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 Oakland Airport to your destination, you have the choice of renting a car, taking a taxi (Friendly 800-244-0400 or Veteran's Cab 510-533-1900) a limo, or a bus or train:
1. AirBART (tel. 510-569-8310 - bart.gov) public buses make daily runs between the Airport and BART Coliseum/Oakland Airport station - leaving between Terminals 1 & 2 curbside about every 10 minutes, Mon-Sat 5am-midnight & 8am-midnight Sundays/ Holidays.
2. BART (tel. 510-465-BART) is located at Coliseum / Oakland AirportStation at 7200 San Leandro Street, Oakland. From there you can connect to the following BART lines: Pittsburg/Bay Point - SFO Line; Dublin / Pleasanton - Daly City Line; Richmond - Fremont Line; Fremont - Daly City Line; Richmond - Millbrae Line. 
3. Scheduled Vans & Buses: (a) Evans Airport Service (707-255-1559 or 707-944-2025) serves Courtyard by Marriott at Vallejo and Napa; (b) The Airport Express (707-837-8700 or 800-327-2024) serves the North Bay's Marin & Sonoma Counties.
4. The Super Shuttle(415-558-8500) serves all Bay area, Sacramento & Monterey counties and San Francisco, San Jose and Sacramento airports.
5. Numerous other door-to-door shuttles serve selected Bay Area Counties - all serve Alameda County; most of them serve Oakland & San Francisco airports, and some also serve San Jose Airport.
6. To connect from OAK to  San Francisco Airport use first the AirBART to the Coliseum station and take the BART Daly City line, transferring at Balboa Park station to the SFO Line. Estimated time from OAK to SFO: 53-60 mins; present cost: $8.80 

NOTE: Work started lat 2010 on the BART-Oakland International Airport Connector, an elevated train/people mover, which is to go into service by 2014, 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.

• Address:
  1 Airport Dr
  Oakland, CA 94621
  United States
• Website for Metropolitan Oakland: http://www.flyoakland.com
• Email Address: http://www.oakland.com/contact_us.shtml
• Phone: (510) 563 3300
• View Terminal Map