SF News Baby Boy Born on SFO-Bound Flight from Philippines Philippines Airlines passenger Aida Alamillo delivered a healthy baby boy mid-flight yesterday while en route to San Francisco with the help of three onboard nurses and several flight crew members. The baby was
SF News Billie Joe Armstrong's Saggy Butt Kicked Off Southwest Flight at Oakland Airport As Bay City News reports, Green Day lead singer, Billie Joe Armstrong, announced via Twitter on Thursday that he had been kicked off a Burbank-bound Southwest Airlines flight at Oakland Airport because his
SF News New Thai Airline is the First to Hire Transsexual Air Hostesses According to The Telegraph today, a brand-new airline out of Thailand hopes to promote equal opportunities for Thailand's "third sex" by hiring three ladyboys among their first round of employees this week. Peter
SF News Heading Northeast Out of SFO? Check Flight Status Beforehand. Holiday travel has been particularly hellish this year for lots of folks, and it's not getting better any time soon. Incessant rain in the Bay Area caused delays for passengers traveling out of
SF News Some Euro-Bound Flights Resume Out of SFO The Icelandic volcano that no one can pronounce and that has paralyzed European air travel for the last five days continues spewing ash into the air, but some airlines like KLM and Air
misc Delta Wants to Charge $69 from SFO to OAK, Each Way We were cracking up earlier when this great "deal" appeared in our inbox. Delta wants to charge $140 for a roundtrip between San Francisco and Oakland. As Dottie Lou brilliantly put it, "WTHelta?
SF News Kevin Smith, Too Fat to Fly Southwest? After delivering a potty-mouthed tirade/iPad speech to geeks at the Macworld Expo today, filmmaker Kevin Smith (Cop Out, Clerks, Chasing Amy) sent out these delightfully irate Twitter messages regarding his getting thrown
SF News Angry Customer Arrested at SFO for Bomb Threat A frustrated customer at the Philippine Airlines ticket counter at SFO's International Terminal, when told he was going to have to pay for a full round-trip fare, became so incensed that he held
SF News Captain 'Sully' Goes Back To Work Capt. Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger -- the Danville pilot turned hero, who safely landed his U.S. Airways plane into the Hudson River after birds got sucked into the engines -- has decided to
SF News <i>SF Weekly</i> Gets All 'To Catch a Predator' on Airplanes Not sure if any of you caught this story in the Weekly this week, but just in case you didn't, and just in case you have kids, make sure to train them in
SF News Idea for Commercial Airlines: Fly in Formation? Five Stanford doctoral students are flying to Paris this weekend as finalists in a competition sponsored by Airbus for the best fuel-saving idea for commercial airlines. Their idea is for the passenger jets
SF News ATA's Bankruptcy To Affect Southwest Customers Indianapolis-based ATA Airlines filed for bankruptcy last night "after it lost a key military charter contract amid skyrocketing fuel prices." This prompted the now-defunct airline to stop all service today, stranding thousands of
