SF News Mayor's Office Blamed In Four-Year Delay To Possibly Name SFO Terminal After Harvey Milk It was January of 2013 when then-Supervisor David Campos proposed that San Francisco name its airport after slain gay icon and SF Supe Harvey Milk. After that plan was met with no small
SF News SF Supervisor Proposes Law To Prevent SFPD From Forcibly Removing Airline Passengers From Planes Jumping on the opportunity to legislate around a viral story pertaining to air travel, newly seated District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy has asked the San Francisco City Attorney's office to draft legislation that
SF News RIP Virgin America Airlines, Which Alaska Is Officially Killing Off In Two Years Alaska Air Group, which for roughly $4 billion last April acquired Virgin America and its purple-lit cabins and generally happy customers, is doing away with the popular boutique brand in two years time,
SF News SF Protest Planned Thursday As President's Revised Travel Ban Takes Effect President Trump has revised his executive order relating to travel into the US from six Muslim-majority countries the order no longer includes Iraq among the countries considered dangerous for immigration or travel visas
SF News Virgin/Alaska Adding Daily Non-Stop Flights From SFO To New Orleans, Nashville, Philly Virgin America, which remains a much swankier subsidiary of Alaska Airlines since the company was sold last year, will be adding 13 new daily non-stop routes out of San Francisco and San Jose
SF News Undocumented Mouse Delays SFO-Bound Plane For Hours Travelers bound for San Francisco were stranded this morning, after a teeny tiny stowaway caused their flight to be canceled. It all went down on British Airways flight 285, which was scheduled to
SF News United To Offer Three Daily Flights From SFO To Santa Rosa? Strangely, United Airlines seems to think there's a market for ferrying people quickly, by air, on the very brief journey from SFO to Sonoma County maybe wine country tourists who disdain cars? and
SF News 38-Year-Old Singapore Airlines Flight Attendant Found Dead In SF Hotel Room Is this how the plague begins? A Singapore Airlines flight attendant was found dead in her hotel room in San Francisco Tuesday, after she reportedly told coworkers on her arriving flight that she
SF News All SFO Detainees Released After Second Day Of Immigration Ban Protests After two days of protests at San Francisco International Airport in response to detentions under President Trump's executive order imposing a federal travel ban on seven majority-Muslim countries, all five detainees at the
SF News Second Day Of Protest Hits SFO As Airbnb Offers Free Rooms To Those Affected By Travel Ban Protesters are set to descend on the International Terminal at SFO for the second day in a row, at noon on Sunday, to express their outrage over Donald Trump's actions with regard to
SF News ACLU Celebrates Temporary Victory Over Trump's Order On Immigration; Mayor Lee Commends Federal Judge Hundreds showed up at SFO and elsewhere Saturday to protest President Trump's executive order on immigrants from seven primarily Muslim nations, which had led to detentions of innocent people at airports nationwide who
SF News Protesters Pack SFO To Decry Detentions Under Trump's Immigration Ban Protesting an immigration ban ordered by President Donald Trump, signs at SFO announce "We Want You Here" and "Give Us Your Huddled Masses." Demonstrators gathered at the airport this afternoon as similar actions
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Super Duper Announces SFO, East Bay, And Upcoming International Locations Fast on the heels of the news that Super Duper Burgers is getting ready to double the size of its original Castro location something that the Planning Commission just approved last week the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Smuggler's Cove Partners With Virgin Atlantic To Bring Tiki Drinks To SFO Smuggler's Cove, the top-notch tiki bar tucked away in Hayes Valley, might be a vacation destination unto itself, but for those who are looking to travel more literally, the bar's proprietor, Polynesian Pop
SF News No Charges To Be Filed Against A**hole Who Caused That SFO-Bound Flight To Get Diverted The man who made many headlines and local news stories Monday for causing 252 passengers to get stuck for 24 hours in Auckland, New Zealand all because he allegedly launched into a racist
SF News SFO-Bound United Flight From Sydney Grounded Over Middle-Seat Rage, Racism Of One Passenger An angry man allegedly launched into a racist and homophobic rant after being seated between two other passengers of Indian or Pakistani descent on a San Francisco-bound flight out of Sydney on New
SF News Bay Area Native Allegedly Bites Flight Attendant's Ear During Drunken Fit On Transcontinental Flight An American expat from Santa Rosa is in some serious trouble with federal authorities after disrupting the peace aboard an SFO-bound KLM flight last week and allegedly biting a flight attendant on the
SF News Christmas Eve Links: SFO's Therapy Pig Does Holiday Travel Duty Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. SFO's therapy pig, Lilou, has been extra busy helping
SF News Fear Not, Bay Area: Ivanka Trump And Family Are Just At SFO On A Layover A JetBlue flight to San Francisco from New York's JFK airport is about an hour late this afternoon, a delay presumably tied to the hubbub in the plane's cabin this morning: A Hunter
SF News Alaska Airlines Still Being Cagey About Plans For Virgin Brand Following news in April that Virgin America was being acquired by Alaska Air Group, fans of Virgin and its purple-lit cabins have been pretty sad some of them litigiously so about the prospect
SF News The BART Connection To SFO Is Losing Riders Fast As Uber/Lyft Airport Rides Skyrocket In some not so surprising news, ever since Uber and Lyft have been given free rein to pick up and drop off passengers at SFO, ridership on BART's SFO line has been steadily
Arts & Entertainment SFO Has A Therapy Pig Now Pilot LiLou reported to her first duty at the SFO airport as part of the SF SPCA's #wagbrigade Got to cheer up the passengers on this rainy day! #lilou #sfpig #nobhillpig #aat #sfspca
SF News Japan-Bound Flight Makes Immediate Emergency Landing At SFO After Flames Seen Coming From Engine A flight bound for Tokyo that took off from SFO at noon Monday had to turn around and make an emergency landing back at SFO after flames were seen coming out of one
SF News Uber Drivers To Join Nationwide Living-Wage Strike Tuesday San Francisco Uber drivers are gearing up for a strike tomorrow as part of a nationwide labor-protest seeking a livable wage. Reuters reports that the action is being organized by Fight For $15,
SF News Video: Captain On SFO-Departing Flight Addresses Passengers Following Racist Incident A captain on a United flight out of SFO was apparently forced to make a plane-wide announcement following a racist encounter onboard, apparently related to the election of Donald Trump. Details are few,
