SF News SFO Travelers Hit With Delays Due to Mess In Newark A major East Coast airport hub, particularly for United Airlines, has been in the throes of an air-traffic control staffing shortage that has led to cascading delays and cancellations around the country.
SF News United Airlines Jet Clips Wing of Another at SFO, Emergency Crews Respond There was a minor plane whoopsie at San Francisco International Airport Monday night when a United Airlines jet pushing back from the gate clipped the wing of a nearby plane.
Business & Tech Denver-Bound United Flight Out of SFO Suffers Bird Strike, Returns to Gate After Takeoff Another United flight out of SFO had an issue on Saturday morning, but this one was due to natural causes, or, rather, a random collision with nature.
SF News Japan-Bound United Airlines Flight Out of SFO Loses Tire During Takeoff, Gets Diverted to LAX A United Airlines flight leaving SFO had a problem during takeoff on Thursday and ended up being quickly diverted to Los Angeles.
SF News Bay Area Airports Report Dramatic Surge in Holiday Travelers This Year San Francisco International Airport saw a 14% increase in travelers this year compared to last year.
SF News Alaska Airlines Pilot Pleads Not Guilty; Wife Says 'That Is Not the Man I Married' Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson was arraigned in a Portland court on Thursday, and while he's essentially admitted to trying to interfere with a plane's engine amid an apparent mental breakdown, he has pleaded not guilty to 167 charges of attempted murder and reckless endangerment.
SF News [Updated] Alaska Airlines Pilot Makes First Court Appearance; Feds Say He Was Doing Mushrooms When He Interfered With the Plane The off-duty pilot accused of trying to cut off fuel to the engines of an SFO-bound commuter jet on Sunday, endangering the lives of 83 people, is set to make his first court appearance today in Portland.
SF News Alaska Airlines Pilot Arrested For Trying to Bring Down Plane Lives In Pleasant Hill, Described as 'Family Man' The Alaska Airlines pilot currently in custody in Portland over a Sunday evening incident — in which he allegedly tried to shut down a plane's engines while off-duty and riding in the cockpit — is being described by neighbors as "normal" and a "family man."
SF News San Francisco-Bound Alaska Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing After Off-Duty Pilot Disrupts Engines A scary situation unfolded in the cockpit of an SFO-bound Alaska Airlines flight on Sunday, when an off-duty pilot traveling on a jump seat in the cockpit allegedly attempted to bring down the plane.
SF News Close Calls on SFO Runways Are Just Tip of the Iceberg In Broader National Trend An investigation by the New York Times has found an extremely alarming trend of increasing near-misses at U.S. airports in recent years, with a major airline catastrophe getting likelier with each one.
SF News Masks Come Off on BART, Airplanes, and In Uber and Lyft Cars — But Not Muni — Following Ruling By Trump-Appointed Judge A Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida issued a ruling Monday that denied the authority of the CDC to continue its federal mask mandate on planes and public transit — a mandate that was set to expire in two weeks anyway.
SF News Human Impulses, Pandemic Fatigue Driving People to Ignore Health Warnings and Gather for Holidays "For every cold statistic there is an equally human justification [for traveling]," the LA Times writes.
SF News Alaska Promises To Keep Virgin Amenities, Signs Partner Deals With Giants, Kevin Durant Alaska Airlines knows that many folks are going to miss Virgin America, so they're trying their best to ease your worries—by copping some of Virgin America's signature style and reaching out to
SF News Houston Family's Dog Dies In United Flight Cargo Hold En Route To SFO A five-year-old King Charles spaniel named Lulu died aboard a United Airlines flight from Houston to San Francisco recently, and the family is pointing blame at the airline. The Houston family told their
SF News Air Canada Jet's Near-Miss Landing At SFO Was Within 300 Feet Of Disaster A new animated simulation illustrates just how close an Air Canada jet was last Friday to killing about 1000 people at SFO. As we now learn via NBC Bay Area, Air Canada Flight
SF News Close Call Involving Air Canada Flight Friday At SFO Could Have Caused Major Aviation Disaster A terrifying near miss Friday involving an Air Canada pilot apparently unfamiliar with the runways at SFO could have led to the "greatest aviation disaster in history" according to one aviation expert contacted
SF News Newly Discovered Photo Suggests Amelia Earhart Survived Plane Crash In Marshall Islands A recently discovered photograph, found in the National Archives among previously top-secret documents, may be a major new piece in the 80-year-old mystery of what happened to pioneering airwoman Amelia Earhart. The story
SF News SFO Paving Project Is Going To Make Memorial Day Weekend Travel Very Terrible A previously discussed project to repave one of the main runways at SFO, which is now in crunch-time as the summer travel rush quickly approaches, is going to result in significant delays and
SF News Video: Slugfest On Oakland-Bound Southwest Flight Snuffed By Santa Clara Man The internet is chock full of airline confrontation videos lately. The latest involves an Oakland-bound Southwest flight that originated in Dallas, and it is quite a doozy. This one is less disturbing than
SF News Video: SFO-Bound Flyer Gets Ticket Canceled By United Agent In New Orleans After Baggage Dispute Another day, yet another unhappy airline customer videotaping a confrontation with an airline employee after he has his SFO-bound ticket canceled out of New Orleans. The full, 13-minute cellphone video has now been
SF News SF Supervisor Proposes Law To Prevent SFPD From Forcibly Removing Airline Passengers From Planes Jumping on the opportunity to legislate around a viral story pertaining to air travel, newly seated District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy has asked the San Francisco City Attorney's office to draft legislation that
SF News Virgin/Alaska Adding Daily Non-Stop Flights From SFO To New Orleans, Nashville, Philly Virgin America, which remains a much swankier subsidiary of Alaska Airlines since the company was sold last year, will be adding 13 new daily non-stop routes out of San Francisco and San Jose
SF News Undocumented Mouse Delays SFO-Bound Plane For Hours Travelers bound for San Francisco were stranded this morning, after a teeny tiny stowaway caused their flight to be canceled. It all went down on British Airways flight 285, which was scheduled to
SF News United To Offer Three Daily Flights From SFO To Santa Rosa? Strangely, United Airlines seems to think there's a market for ferrying people quickly, by air, on the very brief journey from SFO to Sonoma County maybe wine country tourists who disdain cars? and
SF News No Charges To Be Filed Against A**hole Who Caused That SFO-Bound Flight To Get Diverted The man who made many headlines and local news stories Monday for causing 252 passengers to get stuck for 24 hours in Auckland, New Zealand all because he allegedly launched into a racist
