From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fwd: RE: [CONJOSE-info]: transportation question
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:41:26 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

These days when Karl goes to the San Jose area, he usually goes to Oakland
and rents a car. However, for a long time he used SJO; for a variety of
mostly irrelevant (to this discussion) reasons he no longer does. But SJO is
small, convenient to the con, and right next to Rt. 101, California's main
north-south drag.

The United staff there got our cats off the plane and to baggage claim
before me when we took them out in Nov. 95 for our longer-than-expected
sojourn in Sunnyvale. The staff was also fabulous when we returned with our
preemie on oxygen for the flight.

There are numerous United flights from BWI and Dulles to San Jose via
Chicago and Denver. But you will have to walk down actual airplane stairs
(gasp!) and onto the tarmac at SJO. Ask Karl about the state of affairs with
American to the SF area these days.

Erica

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Smith [mailto:sgs at aginc.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 5:47 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fwd: RE: [CONJOSE-info]: transportation question

Cathy Green wrote:
>
> I'm forwarding the info below because I thought it
> might be of interest to list members who will be
> attending ConJose.
>
> > I would estimate taxi fare from SFO to downtown San
> > Jose to be on the order
> > of $50 to $100; possibly more.  SFO is about 40
> > miles from downtown San
> > Jose.

The San Francisco Bay area has three airports -- SF International (SFO),
San Jose (SJC), and Oakland (OAK).  Generally, SFO has the most
expensive flights and OAK has the cheapest.  SJC is closest to the con
(duh!).  All are international airports, but SFO has the most
international and transcontinental nonstop flights by far.  Nonstop
flights are *far* more expensive than flights with one stop somewhere in
the middle of the country.

By analogy with the DC area, think of SFO as Dulles (huge), SJC as
National (convienent), and OAK as Baltimore (hungry & willing to make
deals).

I would guess that a cab from SJC airport to the con would be reasonable
(ie, not $100).  I have no clue about public transportation from OAK to
the con.

--
Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
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