When I was booking my flight to attend WWDC, I could fly into either SFO or Oakland. I’m been flying into Oakland for a long time anytime I’ve come into San Francisco. Back in 1995, the first time I came to Macworld San Francisco, I flew into SFO because I didn’t know better; I then took a bus into town. Pretty much after that when I came into San Francisco myself (I came a number of times for work and we always took cabs in), I flew into Oakland because BART went to Oakland Airport via the AirBART shuttle and Southwest stopped flying into Oakland. My last trip to San Francisco, I got annoyed with Oakland because I didn’t have the exact fare for AirBART (now $3) and had to scramble to get change and the 15-20 bus trip to transfer to BART was a pain.
So, for this trip, I decided to try SFO because Southwest started flying there again and a BART station was built at the airport a number of years ago, connected via a tram. I must say that it was much smoother flying into SFO as I got off the plane, walked to the tram, took it to the BART station and made it right into San Francisco. In addition, it is slightly cheaper. I’m now a convert to SFO!