Oakland Airport Park and Call

Great service fast and easy. Love their rewards program and my car is always safe. Close to the airport and easy access shuttle.

It only took 12 tries, but I finally got a space here! Hooray! I’m a fan.

I’m sure many of us frequent Oakland International Airport to pickup family and friend arriving at the airport. Even with the expected arrival time, it is hard to gauge when the person you are picking up will be out front given factors such as luggage pickup, etc. So what can you do? Drive around and around the terminal? Well, you can’t park at the curb and wait as you’ll get a ticket from the Alameda County Sheriff. The viable option is the Park and Call lot.
At you enter the airport on Airport Access Road, follow the signs to the Park and Call lot that’s on John Glenn Drive. It is a free lot, yes «Free», with about 40+ spaces where you can park and surf the web on your smartphone, listen to some tunes, or catch some ZZZs while waiting for your arrival to call you to say they are out front and ready to be picked up.
When you get the call, the road from the lot leads right onto Airport Access Road and right into the Airport terminals.
What a great idea, huh? Not sure if the other Bay Area airports have a Park and Call lot, but I have and am taking advantage of this free parking as my pit stop where I wait for «the call» before I head out for my pickup.

What a fabulous idea! Drive to the free park and call lot and wait. Have the person you’re gonna pick up call you when they’re getting to the curb with their bag outside the terminal. It’ll take you just a few minutes to get to curbside and you won’t have to circle the terminal waiting forever to pick up someone.
The park and call lot is the last exit before the terminals. Exit at Cowan Parkway and stay to the left. Parallel the overpass and go through the stop light and you’ll see the lot on the right. The only problem with this lot is that it can get busy and finding a space can be problematic, even after its recent expansion.

I will never fly from Oakland Airport after watching the behavior of the attendant at the cell phone late who was issuing tickets. There was a woman 5 spots from us who needed help jumpstarting her car. First she asked the attendant for help and he replied he was far too busy. So she asked my buddy and I for help. As I went to leave my car to help, the piece of scum writing tickets informed me that if I exited the car to help the stranded motorist that he would issue me a citation for not being in the car. And this ladies and gentleman is everything you need to know about city workers.

This is the third in my not so storied history of trying cell phone lots and I have to say it is the most disappointing experience so far.
This lot is really small. Cue the penis jokes.
But seriously, what gives Oakland? God knows you’re not using the extra asphalt to fill the million potholes around this town.

It’s small but as I didn’t know anything like this even existed I have to say I love it! A solution to the worst thing about picking someone up at the airport, especially in Oakland. If only they made the lot bigger… But late night/​early morning pick ups should be golden.

The spaces are tight and its small, but it feels safe and it’s easy to get back to the terminals. A welcome addition to Oakland airport.

I don’t travel much, so the need to come to Oakland International Airport is rare for me. In this case, it was to pick up arriving friends.
On the way there I was thinking «ugh, I’m gonna have to park somewhere on Hegenberger and hang out… or drive round and round the airport wasting time.» Neither option sounded good.
On the way toward the airport, with a leaning toward driving round and round (after seeing some of the «clientele» at the gas stations after dark”), I happened to notice the Park & Call sign. «hmmm, what is this?»
What I didn’t know was there is now a place to park and wait for your arrival to contact you. Laugh all you want if the lot has been there 22 years and I just didn’t know it.
I swooped up into the lot… and almost ran over 3 cars. Its a small little lot. But I did get a space, saved the «round and round» gas, didn’t get jacked at the gas station, and all was well.
One final note — exiting the lot is convenient as it points you right toward the terminals, sketchy as it feeds you right into the flow of mad drivers racing from the freeway toward the terminals at warp 9.

Great idea, not enough parking while waiting in the evenings (usually on Friday and Sunday nights). It’s free, so can’t really complain. Just hope you don’t get boxed in while others are waiting for a space. If you see a line out the entrance I’d just wait next door in the huge lot that barely has cars in it or circle around.

Currently road construction. Drive safe & leave earlier to make your flight.

This little cell-​phone lot is just that — little!!! I think there are only like 28 spaces or something (yeah I was bored waiting for my husband’s flight) and late at night it can feel a little sketchy. But it sure beats paying for parking at the airport or circling like a shark waiting for arrivals.

Having family and friends who travel often into OAK I use the free «Park and Call» lot to wait for who ever Im picking up so that I wont have to circle the airport multiple times.
This convenient parking lot has about 20 – 30 spots where you can wait for your loved one arriving home from a trip rather than circling or risk getting a ticket waiting curbside. The directions into the lot is easy and you are about a1 minute drive from the «Park and Call» lot to Southwest’s terminal 2.
Convenient, more environmentally friendly and will save aggravation from looking for the person you’re picking up!

Nobody wants to waste time circling around when you’re early for a flight or waiting for one that has been delayed. Good job OAK! You have done something right.

Place is really small but efficient. Just don’t plan on being here when it’s busy. I’ve waited here 2 times first time it was a pain cause I had to keep leaving and coming back because there is a 30 min waiting limit before u have to leave then come back.
This last time I have been here it was empty and I didn’t have to move. Just make sure to have some hip music to listen to.
All in all. When you do get the call its very easy to access the terminals. even if you have to loop

It’s a Tuesday night, you live in San Francisco, and your sister is flying into Oakland at 9:45 p.m. Then, what do you know? The flight is delayed, and delayed again.
You’ve had a long day at work, and attended an after-​work networking event which included two glasses of wine, and lots of pretending to be interested in the «expertise» of a couple of windbags from the valley with egos bigger than the company they used to work for (insert Internet giant of choice here). Also, to make matters worse, you’re wearing a pair of really cute sandals that have torn your tender winterized feet into bits. You really want to go home, strip, and face plant on the couch with a glass of red and the remote control. Instead, you’re crossing the Bay Bridge at 11 p.m. headed for that distant strip of landing lights on the horizon. You figure you’ll have to park your car in the short term lot, and go in to wait for your sister in the garishly lit baggage claim. Then, like manna from heaven, you spy the sign for Oakland Airport Park and Call.
Park and Call is a free lot where you can sit in your car and wait for your peeps to, well, call. And tell you they’re finally here. So you can rev up the engine and go get them, then go home and go to bed. The lot is lit by comforting low wattage streetlamps, so you feel safe from predators but can also take a much needed power nap in the front seat of your car.
I think Park and Call should be mandatory for all airports in the nation.