Another new British Airways route – Oakland – and Avios availability wide open

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• ip says:

  2 Nov2 November 04:33

  Oh dear…. I am guessing Zykanthos on the main ba web page refers to Zakynthos/Zakinthos. Otherwise it will be a new destination that even the Greeks weren’t aware of…

• Lady London says:

  2 Nov2 November 04:37

  What wonderful news. The advantage of Oakland is that starting in Oakland in a car you don’t have to go over a bridge (I forget which) that is massively congested to get anywhere, as you do from SFO. I will definitely be booking this.

  The Californians I have worked with, even when they lived in San Francisco, mostly choose to land at Oakland, or San Jose which is also less congested.

  Bit worried that BA seems to be fighting Norwegian headon on these 2 new destinations. I don’t want to fly Norwegian, as they seem to be a bit of a Ryanair on luggage charging, but I DO heartily want Norwegian to survive. If Norwegian does not survive then BA’s and other airlines’ kind-of-OK fares Transatlantic will rapidly disappear. I was there when Laker went under. I don’t want the legacy airlines to put Norwegian out of business.

  • Nick OCallaghan says:

    2 Nov2 November 15:44

    If you’re heading south, SFO is fine, but to go north to Marin County or Napa for example, OAK would be great as it saves bridges and travel time, but you would miss out on the Golden Gate Bridge drive however, and heading north there’s no toll…. 🙂

• Sam G says:

  2 Nov2 November 05:53

  Some very keen pricing on the new shorthaul – Murcia @ 60 quid off peak / 150 quid school hols. Well worth a look

  • Kathryn says:

    2 Nov2 November 11:37

    This is ideal for me, my mum lives in Murcia, and I’ve been shlepping down from Alicante – which normally means getting a hire car too. Hello more holidays!!

• Paul says:

  2 Nov2 November 06:06

  I have concerns about whether Alex Cruz is the right person to run BA. His minds seems looked into running a LCC. If he really wants to compete with both the LCC and the full fat airlines, investigate doing a split brand strategy like Lufthansa rather than continuing to dilute the BA brand.

  I am probably wrong and there are loads of other influences that I am not privy to but that is just my perception.

  Ok rant over

  • S says:

    2 Nov2 November 07:10

    I have colleagues in BA and they are fed up of him and saying he is driving BA to the ground…

    • Paul says:

      2 Nov2 November 14:52

      Wonder if he did a DYWIA? lol

• Frank says:

  2 Nov2 November 06:50

  There are good connections to Hawaii on Alaska airlines via Oakland

  • Stu R says:

    2 Nov2 November 07:14

    …. and flights to Hawaii out of Oakland and San Jose on Hawaiian are generally up to ½ the price of similar cash fares out of SFO!

  • Kipto says:

    2 Nov2 November 07:17

    Yes, flew into Oakland from Oahu, Hawaii, in August. Taxi cost $70 into central San Francisco..

• David S says:

  2 Nov2 November 06:57

  There is also the new route to Lima, Peru from LGW. Haven’t got around to checking availability yet.

• TT says:

  2 Nov2 November 08:32

  What do you know about SJC underperformance? Flight has been busy every time I’ve taken it apart from on its second run ever!

  • Rob says:

    2 Nov2 November 08:37

    BA has put it in writing that the route is underperforming, hence the quotation marks.

  • Nick OCallaghan says:

    2 Nov2 November 15:12

    I have only taken the LHR-SJC route once, but the flight was overbooked and I was upgraded to World Traveller Plus, perhaps a sunday in September is the exception to the rule!

• Will says:

  2 Nov2 November 08:50

  What isn’t wrong with BA? I recall Oakland being like the New Jersey of San Fran – at least it has mainline rail I guess but SFO has decent connections.

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