Commercial airliners used the GA runways (North Field) when the South Field runway was being repaved in August 2001. People in Hayward and San Leandro (towns in the South Field approach path) were warned that they were going to have 737s and MD80s (etc.) overhead and not to panic. They scheduled it for the summer, when school was not in session. They also upgraded a taxiway parallel to the South Field runway to use for departures. I don't know what they did about the big jets, though - OAK gets several FedEx DC10/MD10/MD11s a day, plus charter 747s. Can you land a DC10 or 747 on a 6,200 foot runway? http://www2.oaklandairport.com/press_releases_detail.cfm?ID=64 -- Michael C. Berch mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Aug 28, 2004, at 10:56 AM, Alireza Alivandivafa wrote: > Question on OAK: > Is there ever a time where the Commercial aircraft use the GA field or > vice > versa? I ask this because LGB has used the smaller runways on Sundays > because > of work on the main runway. >