Megan Singleton: BloggerAtLarge.com writer on Oakland airport changing its name - The Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin

The Port of Oakland authority have launched a plan to change their "Metropolitan Oakland International Airport" to "San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport".

Despite speculation, this change isn't to end decades of mix-ups with Auckland Airport, as the locations were once famously mixed up by an unfortunate traveller in 1985.

BloggerAtLarge.com writer Megan Singleton says this name change is actually for marketing reasons- the inclusion of 'San Francisco' will hopefully being more travellers in.

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