Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee Stop Ignoring Deteriorating Oakland Airport And Redevelop It

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee Stop Ignoring Deteriorating Oakland Airport And Redevelop It

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee Stop Ignoring Deteriorating Oakland Airport And Redevelop It Hi all. Oakland Vlogger Zennie Abraham here. Saw this posted on Reddit and from someone who travels out of Oakland Airport. They wrote this: Just had family visit - they flew in/out from SoCal on weekdays (left today, arrived a little over a week ago). When they arrived around ~3 PM in the afternoon they were the only plane to land and it took an hour to get luggage off the plane and to the pick up area - there was not enough staff to apparently accomplish that task. The airport appeared to be running on a skeleton crew - everything was empty. Today, on their return flight, the same situation. Terminal 1 has atrophied - there are few businesses left there as well as flights. My take - this is far worse than previous years and in part caused by Southwest's deteriorating service - they had taken over the aiport as a low cost but frequent commuter service. With PE takeover, they've cut back service it appears (can this be corroborated?) and jacked up prices. Ridership has plummeted and OAK airport appears to be taking this to the chest. I read somewhere Alaska may be coming in to compete on a lot of those budget shuttle trips Southwest used to dominate and I hope they fill up the space that Southwest is leaving with this degradation in service quality on their end and it helps OAK airport. But, in the meantime, the situation is really rough at the airport. ----- Okay Mayor Lee. Time to build a convention centet at the Oakland Airport.
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