Bay Area airports are active in regional coordination and communication efforts. Oakland cargo operations will soon surpass the cargo operations of San Francisco. In summer 2000, RAPC updated the RASP and will provide guidance for the SFO Runway Reconfiguration Program. A. Airports do not determine which airlines and flights use their facilities. Airline companies, according to federal law that deregulated the air travel industry, have the freedom to determine how and when they will schedule their flights and which airports to use.
Airlines have autonomy as they seek to respond to consumer demands and preferences.
In addition, all three local commercial airports, in their current configuration, will have insufficient capacity to meet regional demand, even in good weather, by the year 2010. OAK and SJC will see increased commuter and medium haul domestic and commercial traffic. At the time the Masterplan was being developed, the projected growth in demand for air travel was not as robust as it is today. In 1986 and 1992 the numbers of enplanements at SFO was flat with about 15 million passengers boarding planes. By 1998 SFO enplanements had jumped to about 20 million.