Errors in this article: > Tuesday, June 3, 2003 (SF Chronicle) > On the wings of thrift/By catering to low-cost airlines, Oakland is stealing > business from SFO > David Armstrong, Chronicle Staff Writer >...and SunTrips, a low-fare charter airline that focuses chiefly on leisure travel SunTrips is not an airline of any type, it is a tour operator (http://www.suntrips.com/about.html) It charters aircraft from North American Airlines and other airlines. It cannot operate as an airline because it is foreign owned. > Oakland has ridden Southwest's rising star, building Terminal 2 just for > Southwest, which has filled up the space. According to Grossman, it was a > logical decision. "We build stuff to serve demand, and we don't go out of > our way to build monuments." Terminal 2 was completed in 1985, 4 years prior to Southwest starting service at OAK. T2 was occuped by PSA and AirCal. (http://www.flyoakland.com/media_backgrounder.shtml) > Southwest, which boards 60 percent of Oakland airport's passengers, counts > Oakland as its fourth-largest center. According to data on the Southwest website, OAK is ranked 7. see http://www.iflyswa.com/about_swa/press/factsheet.html#Top%20Ten%20Airports