Originally Posted by
iahphx
Oakland is an interesting one, and I could certainly see an argument for Frontier returning there. There's a very large population in the East Bay, and it's a long way to SFO. Do people avoid it due to its environs? A couple of years ago I needed to stay in the area and read some airport hotel reviews which were, to say the least, concerning. At least one of those hotels later closed due to crime.
Yeah OAK area is quite rough, but if you just go to the hotel and airport you should be fine. I think it's a high probability F9 goes at OAK soon. The SWA fortress there always seems ripe for competition. Not only inter CA but really every route there because it has such a high amount of weekday business traffic.
There are a lot of problems with SFO access. Traffic and having to cross bridges is one, but a real impact for F9 is that BART stops running at midnight and yet F9 flights often arrive around that time from DEN. Kind of renders it worthless to save some on airfare if you then have to blow the savings on ride-sharing.