Flights You're Surprised Exist
Nov 25, 2004 | 7:35 pm
#61
In Memoriam
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SFO-SJC, SJC-OAK, and SFO-OAK
[QUOTE=synd]sometimes i kind of wished they had a sjc-sfo lol! i hate commuting to sfo everytime i am going somewhere, but then at least there is a lounge i can use...[/QUO
There was a SFO-SJC flight when SFO Helicopters was in operation. Some were non-stop; others stopped at the Palo Alto Airport.
If I remember correctly, there have been two periods in the last 50 years that the Bay Area has had a SFO Helicopter Airlines. One was in the 60s, and the second period was in the 70s and/or 80s. I believe this SF0-SJC route was only flown by the second SFO Helicopter Airlines.
Actually, there have been many SFO-OAK routings since the late 1940s. TWA had more than several of these flights that did this hop over the Bay during their many years of service. The attempt was to serve both Airports, then go east. Heading east the airplanes went from SFO to OAK; coming west, the flights usually were routed to OAK first, then to SFO. Both SFO Helicopter operation also did the roundtrip SFO-OAK route. The Helicopter flight time SF0-OAK was seven to eight minutes.
Air California, or maybe it was called AirCal at the time, had a SJC to OAK flight. This may have been part of a Triangle routing from some Southern California points. I know I flew SNA-SJC-OAK in 1971. I really do not remember other information about this flight or other Air California Triangle routes.
During the 80s, an airline called Pacific Express did a triangle routes from Palm Springs, Ca. to the Bay Area. There might have been a SF0-SJC leg to that flight. It could have been a SJC-OAK routing. Again, I just do not remember.
And there is one more piece of trivia. For those of us who are at least 45 years old and that were born and raised in the Bay Area, many will remember that during the 1940s, 50s, and until sometime in the 60s, San Jose was not much more than a cow town. During that period, SJC was barely an airport, with little or no commercial airline service, believe it or not.
There was a SFO-SJC flight when SFO Helicopters was in operation. Some were non-stop; others stopped at the Palo Alto Airport.
If I remember correctly, there have been two periods in the last 50 years that the Bay Area has had a SFO Helicopter Airlines. One was in the 60s, and the second period was in the 70s and/or 80s. I believe this SF0-SJC route was only flown by the second SFO Helicopter Airlines.
Actually, there have been many SFO-OAK routings since the late 1940s. TWA had more than several of these flights that did this hop over the Bay during their many years of service. The attempt was to serve both Airports, then go east. Heading east the airplanes went from SFO to OAK; coming west, the flights usually were routed to OAK first, then to SFO. Both SFO Helicopter operation also did the roundtrip SFO-OAK route. The Helicopter flight time SF0-OAK was seven to eight minutes.
Air California, or maybe it was called AirCal at the time, had a SJC to OAK flight. This may have been part of a Triangle routing from some Southern California points. I know I flew SNA-SJC-OAK in 1971. I really do not remember other information about this flight or other Air California Triangle routes.
During the 80s, an airline called Pacific Express did a triangle routes from Palm Springs, Ca. to the Bay Area. There might have been a SF0-SJC leg to that flight. It could have been a SJC-OAK routing. Again, I just do not remember.
And there is one more piece of trivia. For those of us who are at least 45 years old and that were born and raised in the Bay Area, many will remember that during the 1940s, 50s, and until sometime in the 60s, San Jose was not much more than a cow town. During that period, SJC was barely an airport, with little or no commercial airline service, believe it or not.
