Originally Posted by
spin88
If so (and I blew up the flight path and it does look like a OAK departure) then the "diverted" flight which was supposed to leave SFO at 9:51p left OAK at 11:01p. Anyone who went to SFO would be screwed. If you were connecting or were coming from the Pennsula, there is no way to get from SFO-OAK and clear security in time, let alone if you have bags to check.
All the more reason to receive flight status notifications, no matter what your airline.
You don't think Alaska sent out notification, at the latest, when the rerouted PDX-OAK flight departed at 6:59pm? That would be over 3 hours prior to boarding at OAK. I could drive up to Reno in that amount of time, so could surely make it to another Bay Area airport, even on BART, if needed. Would love to hear from anyone on that flight about the exact time they received the new airport information. May well have been even earlier than 6:59pm.