This is an advertisement from 1969.
If you wanted, you could fly from Concord’s Buchanan Airport to SFO, six times a day. You could also fly from Concord to San Jose, Eureka, Visalia, Salinas and Fresno.
Anyone remember when you could fly out of Concord with Golden Pacific Airlines?
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Back in the 60s before I could fly direct from Seattle to Oakland, I would fly to SFO and take a helicopter over to Berkeley where my brother-in-law had company. Quick trip and I think I was the only passenger. Think it cost $10.
I took the helicopter and also the hovercraft ferry between the SFO and Oakland airports a few times. I don’t recall ever flying to/from Buchanan. I think that was because my I had an office at the Oakland airport and so would drive there via the Warren freeway and 98th Avenue and then had the car available for lunch and other errands in the area around the airport.
Cool. No I don’t remember. Uncle probably told us, but I was a little youngster.
No, but I bought a one-way ticket from Oakland to Burbank through my school’s travel agency in 1974.
It was $17.00 on PSA. Now, that was a good airline – and fun, too! When Southwest took over, the fun stopped.
PSA was acquired by USAir around 1988. Since USAir is/was an East Coast operation, their intended expansion west never panned out. USAir is now part of American.
That was before we moved to the area. However, there was a small airline that flew from Buchanan to SFO in the 1980s (I don’t remember the name), that flew Britten-Norman Islanders (and Trislanders?). I used it once for a trip to DC and it was very convenient.
Never took the puddle jumper from Concord to SFO but Idid fly PSA from Concord to LA for business a couple of times. A very good flight on a good airline. Sure beat going to SFO to catch a flight since I lived in Clayton.
That was in the BA 146 4 engine regional jet I assume. I took that flight to SoCal on business a couple of times too. Very convenient, as I also live in Clayton.