SF News Hong Kong Resident Accused of Making Bomb Threat at SFO Yushing Lui, a marketing director at Silicon Valley technology company Nvidia, is accused of making a bomb threat on an airplane at SFO. According to KTVU, Lui "allegedly told a flight attendant at
SF News San Francisco Airport To Offer Free Wifi Travelers at San Francisco International Airport could soon benefit from free wifi access across all airport terminals. Currently those trying to get online need to pay $7.99. But a partnership between SFO
SF News Tuberculosis-Infected Man On 'Do Not Board' List Flies Into SFO Over the weekend, a man on the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention's "do not board" list, with a steaming case of tuberculosis, managed to fly from Philadelphia to SFO. Should his fellow
SF News So, Just How Shitty Was Your Air Travel Experience This Weekend? The big news this post-Xmas weekend was, of course, that little punk who boarded the plane in Nigeria and tried to blow up that Northwest/Delta flight landing in Detroit on Friday. He
SF News Delayed Eastbound Flights From SFO, Oakland, Due to Previous FAA Computer Crash For anyone who might be reading this before heading to the airport, expect delayed flights today. Although the FAA's Atlanta-based computer system is back up after an earlier system crash, they expect a
SF News Litigious Lawyer Sues SFO For Causing His Divorce Local kook Stanley Hilton is suing San Francisco International Airport for $15 million for creating noise and smog that led to his divorce. He's also suing the real estate agent for selling him
SF News Get Flu Shot, Get on Plane We don't know the larger wisdom behind this effort, but several flu shot kiosks have been set up at SFO dispensing H1N1 vaccinations to those 18 and older for the reasonable (by airport
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 SFO Finally Installs Carbon Offset Kiosks by Chris Jones So, the new carbon offset kiosks at SFO, first reported here last December, have finally been installed at the Airport. The kiosks, operated by local start up, 3Degrees can be
SF News Baggage Handlers Convicted in SFO Theft Ring Back in September, a certain baggage handler by the name of John Emil Victoria, age 21, fucked with the wrong man's luggage. A retired San Francisco police officer checked his custom-made handgun in
SF News Plane Makes Emergency Landing at SFO A Northwest flight going from San Francisco to Tokyo had to turn back to SFO yesterday afternoon after one of its engines stalled. Yikes. "The A330 Airbus took off from SFO around 1:
misc The Lights Coming In and Out at SFO This glorious shot comes to you from noted photographer exxonvaldez. He captures "[r]unway 1 departures from San Francisco International Airport between 10:22pm and 11:38pm on June 27, 2009, as seen
misc Photo du Jour 299 Swine flu-fearing travelers exit from the international terminal with their faces covered with masks at the SFO on Tuesday.
SF News Up for Adoption: Cat Found Stuffed in Suitcase, Abandoned at SFO Named after the duffel bag in which he was abandoned, "Duffy" was discovered by residents in Burlingame near the Embassy Suites at SFO on April 5. Although he was left there for more
SF News Opium found in drums near SFO More than twenty pounds of sweet, pain-alleviating opium were discovered "wrapped in plastic and concealed inside false walls of drums" arriving from Thailand, found at SFO. The incident, which happened in "mid-February," prompted
misc Fun with Photoshop: Gavin's Hair Welcomes You to San Francisco Ha! Jameth found this and sent it our way. And sure, it's fake. But it's stuff like this that would have us flat on our back for Gav -- well, more than any
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Jason Lytle & Aaron Burtch (formerly of Grandaddy) at San Francisco International Airport(?!) (And now for a pro-SFO story...) Airports simply aren't given to happy surprises. That's the way it is. Gotta go, gotta do, gotta git. It's a funnel, a gilded chute, a holding pen.
SF News This just in: San Francisco International Airport Knows Nothing About Travel by Tiffany Maleshefski You'd think that an airport as large as SFO might know a thing or two about flight travel. Turns out, not so much. At least not according to Michael McCarron,
SF News American Airlines Jet Makes Emergency Landing at LAX American Flight 442, bound for Miami, made an emergency landing at LAX today after the pilot "reported smoke and the smell of fuel in the cockpit." Egads. All passengers are safe, according to
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
