SF News Four-Plus-Hour Flight Delays Reported At SFO As Vacationers Head Back Home The "perfect storm" of hazardous weather conditions and thousands of vacation travelers returning back to the Bay Area caused major flight delays at SFO Saturday, with even more delays (and cancellations) expected today.
SF News Stowaway Rat Delays SF-Bound Flight By Nine Hours A flight to San Francisco International Airport was held up for over nine hours Sunday, but (for once!) the issue wasn't ground delays at our end — instead, a rat that had stowed away
Arts & Entertainment Woman Flying Home To San Francisco Trapped In Barefoot 'Nightmare' Today, I flew on the set of a nightmare. pic.twitter.com/PNI4KmQvTG— Jessie Char (@jessiechar) July 19, 2017 A woman on a JetBlue flight from Long Beach to San Francisco was grossed
Arts & Entertainment Composer Jonathan Dove Discusses 'Flight,' His 1998 Opera About A Refugee Trapped In An Airport As a respite to the disheartening stories about refugees being stranded at airport, we offer an opera about a refugee stranded at an airport. And this one is a comedy, just what the
SF News Woman Dies On Flight From Chicago To SFO A woman flying from Chicago to San Francisco died while in transit this weekend, after her "medical emergency" forced the plane to make an unplanned stop in Montana. According to the Billings Gazette,
SF News Flight From San Francisco To Paris Lands Safely After Diversion Over Anonymous Threat Passengers on a plane traveling from San Francisco to to Paris took an unexpected side trip to Canada Monday, after an unspecified anonymous threat caused the flight to be diverted. Air France flight
SF News 16-Year-Old Survives Flight To Hawaii While Hiding In Plane's Wheel Well A teenage boy who sneaked into the wheel well of a flight to Hawaii from San Jose airport was called "lucky to be alive" by the FBI after he survived the five-hour journey.
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Vertigo-Inducing Nighttime Flight Over San Francisco What do you get when you put three photographers in a helicopter over San Francisco? A pretty spinny case of vertigo and some gorgeous night shots of the skyline, apparently. Above: photos from
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'I Don’t Like The TSA' by Jonathan Mann Ever since John Tyner bravely asked a TSA agent not to sexually assault him -- the 31-year-old Oceanside software engineer now faces prosecution and $11,000 in civil penalties -- Jonathan Mann came
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Wright Stuff Laughing Squid brings our attention to Wright Brothers Day, which honors the first flight by Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17, 1903. To prepare yourself for the roaring Wright Brothers Day festivities
SF News Southwest Flights Resume Southwest Airlines, the cattle-car service of affordable air transportation, resumed flights this morning after yesterday's maintenance SNAFU grounded "approximately 4 percent" on Tuesday night. It seems that many of their airplanes failed to