Oakland Airport
The Oakland Airport is located at 6Km from south of downtown Oakland in Alameda County, California. This airport is also called as the Metropolitan Oakland International Airport. Oakland is a city, which is located in the county seat of Alameda County, in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. It was founded in the year 1852. The Oakland is the 8th most prominent city in the United States and in population wise it is sixth. This is base for several Fortune 500 companies, like Clorox, Kaiser and Permanente. It is a major West Coast port. The Oakland city is the corporate capital for the national retailers like Dreyer's and Cost plus World Markets.
Another name of the Oakland city is "The Bright Side of the Bay", why because this city's average sunshine is 73% of all daylight hours. This city contains the best weather through out the United States. It is the most culturally diverse city in the U.S, in Oakland there were more than 150 languages spoken. Oakland has site seeing places like the Oakland Museum of California, Lake Merritt, Chinatown and Jack London Square. It contains one airport that is Oakland International Airport.
Oakland International Airport:
Address:
Oakland International Airport,
1 Airport Dr,
Oakland, CA 94621.
The Oakland Airport is located at 6Km from south of downtown Oakland in Alameda County, California. This is the third international airports in the San Francisco Bay area, it serving the most low cost flights to major cities in U.S. It offers its services to various destinations in the United States, as well as Mexico. This airport is a major competitor to the San Francisco International airport. From this airport several historic flights were takeoff, such as the Charles Kings ford Smith's historic US-Australia flight in 1928 and the Amelia Earhart's final flight in 1937.
This Airport was opened and dedicated by aviator Charles Lindbergh of United States, in the month of September 1927. From this airport Boeing Air transport scheduled flights to Oakland started in the year 1927. In the year 1946 another airlines were also started their flights from this airport, such as the Eastern Airlines, TWA, PSA and American Airlines. They started their first jet-age airline terminal in the year 1962, now it is called as the terminal1. In the year 1988 FedEx opened their cargo base Near Oakland International Airport. Currently this is the most engaged freight terminals in the United States. In the year 2006 the new six gates in Terminal 2 that is 27-32 were opened.
Transport Facilities:
Taxis
Friendly Cab Veteran’s Cab
510-536-3000 510-533-1900
Scheduled Vans and Buses: (Area Served: Vallejo and Napa)
Evans Airport Service Airport Express
707-255-1559, or 707-944-2025 707-837-8700, or 800-327-2024
Limos: (Area Served: North Bay - Marin County and Sonoma County)
A&A VIP DIRECT AAA Transportation
925-586-6559 925-447-0222
A Quick Limo A Wine Valley EX Limo
800-883-8999 888-946-3859
All City Limousine Calypso Limousine Service
877-725-5248 650-270-3810
Hotels near the Oakland International Air Port:
- Hilton Oakland Airport:
One Hegenberger Road,
Oakland, California,
United States 94621.
Tel: 1-510-635-5000 Fax: 1-510-383-4062
The Hilton hotel offers a resort like setting just outside California's Oakland International Airport. The customers of the Hilton international will reach the site seeing of the Oakland With in the less time of 10 minutes. The hotel providing the guest rooms with contemporaneous decorating style. It featured with the various facilities, such as the ironing board, telephone with voice messaging service, data port and modem capabilities, High speed Internet access and cable television.
- Courtyard Oakland Airport:
350 Hegenberger Road,
Oakland, California 94621 USA,
Phone: 1-510-568-7600,
Fax: 1-510-568-7695.
This hotel is a nonsmoking one. The visitors can enjoy the many nearby golf courses and numerous trails at Redwood Regional Park. This hotel is rewarded by the Marriott with category 3. The hotel offers the salads, drinks, snacks and sandwiches. This Oakland Airport hotel contain
Gratis on-site parking and it offers various deals like Free Breakfast Package Deal.
Parking near the Oakland International Air Port:
- Oakland International Airport (OAK):
1 Airport Drive
Oakland, CA 94621.
(510) 563-3300
- Expresso Airport Parking:
880 Doolittle Drive
San Leandro, CA 94577
