San Francisco on Thursday sued Oakland after officials there voted in favor of changing the name of the city’s airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport, saying the change will cause confusion and is already affecting its airport financially.
Last week, the Board of Commissioners for the Port of Oakland voted unanimously to move forward with the name-change and scheduled a second vote for final approval on May 9. The airport is currently called Oakland International Airport.
“We had hoped Oakland would come to its senses, but their refusal to collaborate on an acceptable alternative name leaves us no choice but to file a lawsuit to protect SFO’s trademark,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said in a statement.
Regionalize it. There needs to be a transit coordination for the region that includes marketing.
Years back, Manchester New Hampshire renamed their airport “Manchester-Boston Regional Airport” and there was certainly some contention. However I remember seeing plans to coordinate flights, trains, park and rides, among Logan, Manchester, Green, Hanscom, and Worcester. Back then regionalizing made sense because Logan was so overcrowded, while the others could be much cheaper or more convenient, depending n where in the “Boston Region” you were.
I haven’t heard anything like that in years though: Logan was rebuilt to support more flights, the Big Dig and Silver Line transit made it much faster to get to Logan, plus Acela freed up the skyways a bit
San Fran are a bunch of townies why do they even want that name