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Yellow Cab Offers $35 Flat Fare To SFO

This is decently big news in the taxi/rideshare wars: SF's Yellow Cab is doing what New York City taxis have been doing for a couple decades and finally offering a flat-rate fare

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Morrissey Says Security Officer At SFO Groped His Junk

Britain's greatest dour crooner Morrissey was in the Bay Area last weekend performing a Saturday show at the Event Center at San Jose State, and once again he departed here with a major

SFPD Officer Shoots Carjacking Suspect Who Yelled 'Shoot Me!' Near SFO

Watch raw video of SFPD Chief Greg Suhr's press conference via KPIX SFPD officers shot and wounded a carjacking suspect at SFO earlier this morning after he allegedly wrecked a stolen car and

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This Holiday Weekend, SFO Will Go To The Dogs

According to AAA, this holiday weekend is set to have the highest rate of travel since 2010. But travelers passing through San Francisco International Airport might have a little less stress than folks

Helicopter Crash-Lands At SFO

When a US Coast Guard rescue helicopter went on a test flight to practice hovering at San Francisco International Airport Monday afternoon, the hovering part didn't go so well — after the aircraft malfunctioned,

City Hall Centennial + President Obama In SF = Big Traffic Trouble

Folks hitting the road after the Warriors victory parade or before City Hall's big centennial celebration might have another issue to contend with Friday, as President Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive in

SF Mag Talks To Serial Stowaway Marilyn Hartman, Tries To Make Sense Of Her

Former SF Weekly investigative journalist Joe Eskanazi was on the perplexing case of Marilyn Hartman for San Francisco Magazine in recent months, tracking her down first at the Florida jail where she landed

Singer Says She Was Kicked Off SFO Flight Because Her Kid Was Crying

A photo posted by Sarah Blackwood (@thesarahblackwood) on Jun 12, 2014 at 11:29am PDT Sarah Blackwood, an Ontario-based musician and mom to 2-year-old Giorgio, was just trying to fly from San Francisco

[Updated] Austin-Bound Virgin Flight Out Of SFO Returns To Gate After Passenger Threatens Suicide

Virgin America flight 218 from SFO to Austin had to turn around while taxiing for takeoff around noon today after a passenger made an apparent suicide threat. Passenger (and angel investor) Erik Berg

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Photos: SFO Has Been Taken Over By Metallica Guitarist's Old-Timey Monsters

Going to the San Francisco International Airport can be scary under any circumstances — scary frustrating, scary inconvenient, and scary boring. A new exhibit at the SFO Museum is aiming for scary scary, with

SFO Leads Nation In Airport Breaches

It's a wonder that a terrorist hasn't just hopped a fence and suicide-bombed a plane at SFO, because according to a new Associated Press investigation going back a decade, our very own airport

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Video: This SFO Window Washer Is A (Very Inefficient) Ninja

Style points where they're due, but this guy is maybe not the most efficient choice for the job of washing windows at SFO? A video from the Reddit desk brought to us by

FBI Uses Facebook Messages To Nab Alleged Meth-Smuggling TSA Agents At SFO

Two TSA screeners working at SFO were allegedly involved in a plot involving a third individual to smuggle multiple pounds of methamphetamine through security checkpoints in carry-on luggage. As the Examiner reports, all

Massive East Coast Blizzard Has Yet To Arrive, But Still Snarls Travel At SFO

A "potentially historic storm" that "could unload 1 to 3 feet of snow" is all our East Coast friends are capable of discussing, but, really, how is this my problem, you are perhaps

Bomb Threat To Flight From SFO Prompts Massive Response In New York

The plans of passengers planning on traveling from San Francisco International Airport to Tel Aviv were thwarted Monday night, after a phoned-in bomb threat grounded their flight during its first leg in New

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K-Pop Star Bobby Kim Goes Berserk On Flight To SFO

South Korean gossip headlines Saturday were all about Bobby Kim, a famous Korean pop star who was escorted off a flight at SFO by FBI and airport security following some drunken lunacy on

United Airlines Crew Fired For Refusing To Fly On Aircraft With Threat Scrawled On It

A 13-person crew of United Airlines flight attendants based at San Francisco International Airport were fired last year following an incident in which they refused to fly aboard an aircraft that had a

Picking Up Someone From SFO Today? Be Prepared To Wait.

If you're flying into or picking someone up from San Francisco International Airport today, you'd better bring something to do: according to officials, as of 9 a.m. the airport will begin a

Rain Snarls SFO Travel Monday, Causing Long Delays And Numerous Cancellations

Another day of storms, another day of significant delays and copious cancellations at San Francisco International Airport, as a daylong rainstorm is expected to snarl travel in and out of SFO for most

Surprise! Woman Unexpectedly Gives Birth On Flight From SF To Phoenix

We're all used to surprises while traveling by air. Delays, too-close-for-comfort-pat-downs, weird terrible smells...but even the most jaded traveler must have been surprised when a woman gave birth aboard a Southwest Airlines

Pre-Holiday Airport Report: Delays, And Ways To Pass The Time At SFO

The Bay Area's busiest airport, SFO, expects to handle 1.3 million travelers between last Friday and December 1, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Add that to the designation as the

SFO Now A Battleground For Taxi And SuperShuttle Protests

With Uber, Lyft and Sidecar now fair game at San Francisco International Airport, taxi and SuperShuttle drivers might be SOL at SFO. Nonetheless, each group of workers staged protests in the past two

Uber, Lyft, And Sidecar All Now Legal At SFO

We thought maybe Sidecar had struck some kind of sweetheart deal last week getting permits to drop off and pick up passengers at SFO, but it turns out the other rideshare companies got

Some California Airports Might Start Screening For Ebola, Will SFO Be One Of Them?

Though San Francisco International Airport isn't presently on the Center for Disease Control's list of US airports required to screen travelers for Ebola, officials there say they're ready for the disease, if or