AirBART is a privately-run shuttle bus

Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...

 service that connects the Bay Area Rapid Transit

Bay Area Rapid Transit

Bay Area Rapid Transit is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The heavy-rail public transit and subway system connects San Francisco with cities in the East Bay and suburbs in northern San Mateo County. BART operates five lines on of track with 44 stations in four counties...

's Coliseum/Oakland Airport

Oakland Coliseum Amtrak/BART Station

The Oakland Coliseum Station is a complex of two stations of two public transit providers that are within of each other: Amtrak Capitol Corridors Oakland Coliseum station and Bay Area Rapid Transit 's Coliseum/Oakland Airport station...

 station with Oakland International Airport

Oakland International Airport

Oakland International Airport , also known as Metropolitan Oakland International Airport, is a public airport located south of the central business district of Oakland, a city in Alameda County, California, United States...

 (OAK). Buses stop at street level just outside the BART station and serve both airport terminals with one stop at the airport along the third curb. Buses run every ten minutes Sunday, Monday and Friday - they run every fifteen minutes Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.

A ride costs $

United States dollar

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3 ($1 for children 12 years and younger, seniors 65 years and older, and disabled persons). To speed up boarding, AirBART requires exact fare to be paid for boarding the bus, which can be fulfilled with either exact change, one dollar bills, a ticket from the AirBART vending machine (credit card or debit card only) located at the terminal AirBART pickup location, or a $3 BART ticket. Payment is deposited into a standard transit type farebox on board the bus. BART recommends that riders not purchase tickets from strangers as they may be fraudulent. Depending on traffic, the ride takes ten to fifteen minutes (delays caused mostly by Raider

Oakland Raiders

The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

 game traffic).

As of December 2009, the AirBART fleet consists of five Eldorado

ElDorado National

ElDorado National is a bus manufacturer owned by Thor Industries. Heavy-duty buses are built in Riverside, California, and cutaway buses and mobility vans are built in Salina, Kansas.-Products:* Aerotech and similar lines of cutaway buses...

 Axess buses running on compressed natural gas

Compressed natural gas

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 (CNG).

Alternatives

Trips between the BART station and Oakland Airport can also be made on AC Transit

AC Transit

AC Transit is an Oakland-based regional public transit agency serving the western half of Alameda County and parts of western Contra Costa County in the western, Bay-side area of the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area...

 Route 73. AC Transit is cheaper at $2.00, with additional discounts for those transferring. Route 73 runs every 15 minutes every day, which is less frequent than AirBART. Although Route 73 makes several local stops, total trip time is only slightly longer. The airport connection provided by Route 73 is not emphasized; signage and information is provided to the same degree as the other AC Transit routes serving the station.

Passengers traveling from the Coliseum BART to the airport on Route 73 must board in the "Airport" direction; conversely, passengers going from the airport to Coliseum BART board in the "Eastmount Transfer Center" direction, which is the only boarding option at the airport.

Passengers should be aware that AC Transit buses are not designed to accommodate large amounts of luggage.

AC Transit route 805 is also available late at night, after BART service ends. This route provides service to downtown Oakland, where All Nighter

All Nighter

The All Nighter is a night bus service network in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Portions of the service shadow the rapid transit and commuter rail services of BART and Caltrain, which are the major rail services between San Francisco, the East Bay, the Peninsula, and San Jose...

 connections are available.

Oakland Airport Connector

The Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) is planned as a people mover

People mover

A people mover or automated people mover is a fully automated, grade-separated mass transit system.The term is generally used only to describe systems serving relatively small areas such as airports, downtown districts or theme parks, but is sometimes applied to considerably more complex automated...

replacing AirBART. It will be operated by BART, integrated into the BART fare system with standard BART ticket gates located at the entrance to the station at the airport end of the people mover.

The connector’s automated people movers (APMs) will be electrically powered and operate on a fixed, elevated guideway. The APMs will arrive at the Coliseum BART station every four-and-one-half minutes and are designed to transport travelers to the airport in about eight minutes with an on-time performance of more than 99 percent. The project is expected to be completed in Spring 2014.