SF News SFO Officials Push Back On Proposed Name Change For Oakland Airport Oakland Airport has been seeking ways to boost its profile among travelers, and on Friday the Port of Oakland announced that it was considering a name change to incorporate "San Francisco" into the name. And officials at SFO are not having it.
SF News Another United Flight From SFO Has Engine Issues, Has to Be Diverted to Denver The steady stream of mechanical problems with Boeing jets on United Airlines continues, this time with a Thursday night flight to Paris that only made it as far as Denver, because of engine issues.
Business & Tech Denver-Bound United Flight Out of SFO Suffers Bird Strike, Returns to Gate After Takeoff Another United flight out of SFO had an issue on Saturday morning, but this one was due to natural causes, or, rather, a random collision with nature.
SF News Lyft Driver Loses Job, Charged With Federal Hate Crime for Punching SFO Rider Who He Thought Was Jewish A 39-year-old Daly City man is no longer a Lyft driver after he allegedly punched a rider who he perceived to be Jewish at SF International Airport, and now he’s facing a possible 10-year prison sentence on federal hate crime charges.
SF News Gaza Ceasefire Protesters Block Security Gates at SFO International Terminal A protest arrived at the International Terminal at SFO Wednesday morning, with protesters calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
SF News Japan-Bound United Airlines Flight Out of SFO Loses Tire During Takeoff, Gets Diverted to LAX A United Airlines flight leaving SFO had a problem during takeoff on Thursday and ended up being quickly diverted to Los Angeles.
SF News Video: Man Arrested After Shrieking Freakout at SFO Ticket Counter A man who appeared to be in the throes of a mental health crisis, perhaps brought on by the stresses of travel, was seen shrieking in the faces of ticket agents at the Frontier Airlines counter at SFO recently.
SF News SFO's International Terminal to Be Named After Dianne Feinstein, Pending Final Board Approval The San Francisco Airport Commission has taken its vote and, predictably, it has unanimously approved the renaming of the International Terminal at SFO after the late Senator Dianne Feinstein.
SF News BART Announces the Next Eight Stations Getting Those ‘Evasion-Proof’ Fare Gates The new and supposedly gatehopping-proof BART fare gates are already in use at the West Oakland station, and now BART has announced the next eight stations that will get them. Of course, SF’s notorious Civic Center station is on the list.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hundreds of SFO Flights Delayed, Rain Floods Some SF Streets Monday’s rain caused notable flooding on a few SF streets; longtime SF favorite Jeffrey’s Toys says it’s in danger of closing; and more than 300 flights were delayed at SFO today.
SF News Bid to Rename SFO's International Terminal After Dianne Feinstein Gets First Hearing Next Month An effort to put late Senator Dianne Feinstein's name on one of the terminals at San Francisco International Airport will be having its first hearing next month at the Airport Commission.
SF News JetBlue Plane Collides With Pushback Vehicle at SFO, No One Injured There were a few delays Monday at SFO due to a minor crash between a JetBlue jet and a towing vehicle that was helping the jet push back from a gate, and all the passengers had to deplane.
SF News San Francisco-Bound Alaska Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing After Off-Duty Pilot Disrupts Engines A scary situation unfolded in the cockpit of an SFO-bound Alaska Airlines flight on Sunday, when an off-duty pilot traveling on a jump seat in the cockpit allegedly attempted to bring down the plane.
Business & Tech United Airlines to Start Boarding People With Window Seats First, Aisle Seats Last Hallelujah! United Airlines is soon going to implement a new boarding procedure that it previously tested at a handful of airports, boarding economy passengers with window seats first in order to cut down on boarding time.
SF News United Airlines Experienced Systemwide Outage That Briefly Grounded All Planes Tuesday For what sounds like less than an hour on Tuesday, all United Airlines flights were grounded and prevented from taking off due to an as-yet-unexplained "technology issue."
SF News Close Calls on SFO Runways Are Just Tip of the Iceberg In Broader National Trend An investigation by the New York Times has found an extremely alarming trend of increasing near-misses at U.S. airports in recent years, with a major airline catastrophe getting likelier with each one.
SF News Two United Airlines Employees Charged With Stealing Copious Amounts of Marijuana From Passenger Baggage Both the FBI and the drug dealers were wise to a scheme where two airline employees were allegedly stealing mass amounts of marijuana from San Francisco airport passengers’ luggage and selling it themselves.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Air India Plane From Russia Lands at SFO That ferry flight from Air India taking stranded SFO-bound passengers out of eastern Russia has made it back safely; the Temecula school board is doubling down on calling Harvey Milk a "pedophile"; and the El Nino season is arriving early.
SF News SFO-Bound Flight From India Forced to Land In Russia After Engine Trouble An Air India flight with an unknown number of Americans onboard had to make an emergency landing in Russia on Tuesday, and this could very easily become an international crisis.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFO To Be Jam-Packed Friday, But Nearly Had A Terrifying Runway Accident Carnaval weekend is set to dazzle the Mission District, a 49ers corruption scandal continues to roil Santa Clara City Council, and we’re learning of a scary near-miss at SFO last week right on the eve of a holiday weekend Friday that’s expected to mob the airport.
SF News Suspicious Package at SFO Prompts Evacuation and Delays Sunday Afternoon Chaos unfolded at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday afternoon when a suspicious package was discovered in a terminal, causing an evacuation and causing flight diversions and significant delays.
SF News SFO Will Be First In U.S. to Test Planes’ Wastewater For COVID Variants International arriving flights at SFO will have their wastewater tested for the emergence of new COVID-19 variants, the airport announced Tuesday, making it the first U.S. airport that's doing so.
SF News Day Around the Bay: United Airlines Bans Passenger For Life After Assault at SFO A Santa Clara city councilmember is in court over a leaked 49ers report; a Texas-bound passenger leaving SFO Sunday night has been banned for life from United Airlines over an assault; and the SF Main Library had $550K in damages from a clogged toilet in which someone flushed "foreign objects."
SF News Woman Shouting Threats and Profanities at Flight Attendant Causes Alaska Flight Out of SFO to Be Diverted A woman acting erratically onboard an Alaska Airlines flight from SFO to Chicago on Friday ended up causing the flight to divert to Kansas City out of concern for the safety of the plane's passengers.
SF News NorCal Hunter Indicted For Smuggling Endangered Sheep Carcasses Through SFO These majestic Ladakh urial wild sheep are highly endangered, and some Sacramento-area big game hunter was indicted by the feds for allegedly killing and smuggling eight of them through SFO with forged papers claiming they were some other species.
