SF News United and Delta Say That Mostly Regional Flights Out of SFO Will Be Impacted By Air Traffic Restrictions Airlines are telling passengers Thursday not to worry too much about pending air-traffic restrictions stemming from the shutdown and ongoing strain on the nation's air traffic controllers. But if you're scheduled to take a shorter, regional flight, you may be impacted.
SF News FAA Swears They’ll Cut US Air Flights by 10% This Week Because of the Government Shutdown Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the Trump administration will start cutting US airline flight capacity by 10% starting Friday thanks to the government shutdown, though it’s unclear whether SFO flights will be affected.
SF News SFO Overwhelmed by Flight-Delay Chaos Right as Dreamforce Kicks Off, Nearly Half of Flights Delayed The ‘perfect storm’ of an actual storm, government shutdown short-handedness, and a deluge of Dreamforce attendees left SFO all higgledy-piggledy on Monday, with thousands of travelers facing flight delays and reroutes.
Business & Tech Waymo Gets Its First Baby-Step Approval to Give Rides to SFO, Cars Will Have Human Drivers at First Waymo’s race to provide airport rides to SF International Airport now has a very well-defined set of approved steps, as the company just got the green light to start testing rides to SFO with human drivers behind the wheel.
SF News SFO-Bound Flight Forced to Turn Back, Because It Hit a Bunch of Birds American Airlines flight 2035 took off from Philadelphia Wednesday morning at 7 am, and was headed for SF International Airport, but had to turn around not long after taking off because the plane hit a flock of birds.
SF News American Teacher Living In Thailand Arrested at SFO for Child Pornography, Later Tried to Escape Back to Thailand A 36-year-old American citizen who has been living in Thailand for 11 years and working as a schoolteacher, was arrested at San Francisco International Airport for allegedly possessing over 100 gigabytes of pornographic material featuring minors.
SF News Spirit Airlines Is Pulling Out of the Bay Area Completely, After Having Filed for Bankruptcy The biggest budget airline in the US, Spirit Airlines, filed for bankruptcy last year, and as part of their restructuring, they’re pulling all service out of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two United Airlines Planes Collide at SFO, No Injuries Former SF Symphony director Esa Pekka-Salonen has three new jobs; Aaron Peskin is threatening a ballot measure against Mayor Lurie’s rezoning plans; and two United Airlines planes clipped each others’ wings at SFO.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tesla Driver Appears to Nap on MacArthur Maze, Sparks Outrage The former Delta pilot who was arrested for child sexual abuse at SFO in July appeared in court Friday; it's been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast; and a Tesla driver appeared to be snoozing behind the wheel last week.
SF News Video: Influencer Bro Gets Caught Vaping on SFO-Bound Flight, Claims He Was ‘Assaulted’ When Busted A self-described “AI Expert and Celebrity Pickleball Coach” got popped vaping in the bathroom of an SFO-bound flight Monday, and then promptly berated the flight attendant, claiming, “You assaulted me!"
Business & Tech United Airlines Tech Glitch Causes Almost 300 Flight Delays In and Out of SFO United Airlines was recovering Thursday from a technology problem Wednesday afternoon that temporarily grounded all of its flights and caused widespread delays, as well as some flight cancellations.
SF News Delta Airlines Pilot Pulled Off Plane at SFO, Arrested on Child Porn Charges A Delta Airlines co-pilot was reportedly taken off a plane that had just landed at SFO on Saturday night by officers from multiple agencies, and he was reportedly arrested on charges relating to child sexual abuse material.
Arts & Entertainment SF Giants’ Enormous, 28-Pound ‘Therapy Bunny’ Alex Has Died After Bout With Cancer The delightful four-year-old and way-too-large rabbit Alex who served as the “therapy bunny” for the SF Giants and at SFO airport has reportedly died, after complications from having a cancerous tumor removed.
SF News More Homeless Individuals Traveling Out to SF Airport at Night (Again) In what appears to be an echo of a trend that was happening before the pandemic, likely spurred by increased hassling by police and outreach workers in the city, SFO has been seeing increased numbers of homeless people taking the train there and hanging out, or sleeping.
SF News Sure Enough, SFO Not at All Receptive to Oakland Airport’s New Proposed ‘San Francisco' Name In their ongoing quest to put the words ‘San Francisco’ in their name, the Oakland airport recently floated the new name ‘Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport.’ SFO officials have responded that they hate it, and they’re not pulling back their lawyers.
SF News You Can Stop Taking Off Your Shoes at Airport TSA Checkpoints at SFO and Elsewhere In the biggest change since the attacks of September 11, 2001 drastically increased airport security around the US, the Department of Homeland Security has just announced that airline passengers can now keep their shoes on while passing through TSA checkpoints.
SF News Near-Miss Between Taxiing Jets at SFO Sounds Like Fault of Overworked Air Traffic Controller A recent near-miss between jets taxiing across runways at San Francisco International Airport was avoided by a United flight crew, and it appears to have been the fault of an overwhelmed and/or overtired air traffic controller.
SF News Oakland Airport Tries To Change Its Name Again, This Time to ‘Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport’ Having hit a legal roadblock after trying to change its name to ‘San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport,’ Oakland officials are now taking another stab at it with the new proposed new name ‘Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport.’
SF News Flight From SFO to Rome Diverted to Iceland For Mechanical Issue A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Rome had to be diverted Sunday after an unexplained mechanical issue, making an emergency landing eight hours into the flight.
SF News Someone Shipped 25 Kilos of Meth on a Plane From SF to New Zealand and Customs Agents Intercepted It New Zealand Customs agents discovered an unclaimed backpack filled with methamphetamine, and it seems to have been a special delivery from San Francisco.
SF News Saturday Links: At Tahoe Trial, Former Lover Says Ex-MLB Player Admitted to Shooting Wife’s Mom A Florida man nabbed at SFO was convicted of wire fraud after posing as a flight attendant to score free flights; the CA Farm Bureau is condemning ICE raids targeting farmworkers; and the Tahoe murder trial of ex-MLB player Daniel Serafini has brought new details to light.
SF News Two Palestinian Men Have Their Visas Invalidated at SFO After Arriving for Interfaith Mission A San Francisco supervisor made an emergency trip to SFO late Wednesday night after learning that two Palestinian men with valid visas who had traveled here to speak at interfaith events around the Bay were being denied entry to the US.
SF News SFO-Bound United Flight Aborts Takeoff In Beijing After Engine Catches Fire Another week and another disturbing story about airline safety. A United Airlines jet had to abort its takeoff in China Monday after one of its engines caught fire on the runway.
SF News Woman Arrested at SFO For Allegedly Trying to Board Flight With 151 Pounds of Marijuana A Glendale woman will not be flying high after an arrest at SF International Airport, as she allegedly attempted to board an international flight with 151 pounds of cannabis crammed into her luggage.
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.
