# San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport (OAK)

> Oakland, US · IATA: OAK · ICAO: KOAK · Large Airport · Cargo Hub

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `OAK` |
| ICAO | `KOAK` |
| City | Oakland |
| Country | US |
| Type | Large Airport |
| Elevation | 3 m |
| Cargo | ✅ |
| GPS | 37.72008, -122.22118 |

## Description

San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport (OAK/KOAK) moves more than one billion pounds — roughly 450,000 tonnes — of air cargo a year, making it the Bay Area's true freight airport and one of the busiest air freight terminals in the United States. Unlike neighbouring SFO, OAK is built around all-cargo operations: FedEx Express has run a cargo base here since 1988 under a long-term ground lease with the Port of Oakland and is the largest cargo carrier on the field; of 642,405 tonnes of freighter cargo recorded in 2019, about 79 percent was FedEx and 21 percent UPS Airlines. For forwarders the decisive advantage is multimodality — the Port of Oakland, Northern California's principal container seaport with transcontinental rail connections, adjoins the airfield, backed by Interstates 880 and 580. Night operations are permitted, which is what makes overnight express feasible and sets OAK apart from SFO and San José. US Customs and Border Protection clears cargo on site, and sea-air as well as air-truck combinations via the seaport are established practice. In 2024 the airport was renamed from Oakland International to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport, prompting a naming dispute with SFO but leaving the IATA code OAK and ICAO code KOAK unchanged. Typical flows include e-commerce parcels, Silicon Valley electronics, perishables and spare parts; for intercontinental belly capacity the alternatives are San Francisco International (SFO) and San José Mineta (SJC).

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