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Teen Detained At SFO After Jumping Out Of Jet's Emergency Door Onto Tarmac

Photos from inside the @COPAAirlines plane from which a teen jumped out today. https://t.co/yDw95MfQA1 pic.twitter.com/X7iPLFCi9o— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) August 1, 2017 An American teenager who had

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Woman Flying Home To San Francisco Trapped In Barefoot 'Nightmare'

Today, I flew on the set of a nightmare. pic.twitter.com/PNI4KmQvTG— Jessie Char (@jessiechar) July 19, 2017 A woman on a JetBlue flight from Long Beach to San Francisco was grossed

Air Canada Jet's Near-Miss Landing At SFO Was Within 300 Feet Of Disaster

A new animated simulation illustrates just how close an Air Canada jet was last Friday to killing about 1000 people at SFO. As we now learn via NBC Bay Area, Air Canada Flight

Close Call Involving Air Canada Flight Friday At SFO Could Have Caused Major Aviation Disaster

A terrifying near miss Friday involving an Air Canada pilot apparently unfamiliar with the runways at SFO could have led to the "greatest aviation disaster in history" according to one aviation expert contacted

New Footage Of Asiana Flight 214 Crash Shows Long Delayed Evacuation

Four years ago today, on July 6, 2013, Asiana Airlines flight 214 crash landed and caught fire at SFO, killing three teenage girls and injuring scores of others. Newly surfaced footage, zoomed in

Thousands Of Travelers Cram Bay Area Airports For July 4th Weekend Getaways

Get away weekend at oakland intl airport. Fourth of July holiday. Extremely busy here already @kron4news pic.twitter.com/8Upw8b0FqL— Will Tran (@KRON4WTran) June 30, 2017 It's a big big travel weekend, and

Revised Travel Ban Takes Effect Thursday, Lawyers Camped At SFO

The new, revised, and more limited version of President Trump’s travel ban takes effect at 5 p.m. PDT today, and it will not be surprising if, just like the January attempt

SFO Staffer Who Creeped On Church While Clad In Fake ICE Jacket Loses Job

The San Francisco International Airport employee who freaked out congregants at a Marin County church by photographing them while wearing a jacket that bore a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement logo has lost

SFO Employee Allegedly Dons 'ICE' Jacket, Creeps On Church During Spanish Service

An SFO employee who was reportedly upset by the noise coming from a church apparently ordered a "novelty" Immigration and Customs Enforcement jacket and appeared at the place of worship during a Spanish-speaking

SFO Paving Project Is Going To Make Memorial Day Weekend Travel Very Terrible

A previously discussed project to repave one of the main runways at SFO, which is now in crunch-time as the summer travel rush quickly approaches, is going to result in significant delays and

Art Professor Claims His Phone Was Searched Without A Warrant At SFO

In these ever tense times for civil liberties, we have a new case out of the Bay Area that is likely to ruffle some privacy-protection feathers. ABC 7 brings news of a Bay

Video: SFO-Bound Flyer Gets Ticket Canceled By United Agent In New Orleans After Baggage Dispute

Another day, yet another unhappy airline customer videotaping a confrontation with an airline employee after he has his SFO-bound ticket canceled out of New Orleans. The full, 13-minute cellphone video has now been

Runway Repaving Strands Passengers At SFO, Causes Flight Delays And Cancellations Monday

San Francisco International Airport is being described as "a travelers' nightmare", after an ongoing construction project at one of their runways forced the delay and cancelation of hundreds of flights Sunday and Monday.

Video: American Airlines Flight Attendant At SFO Almost Hits Baby, Makes Mother Cry

In the latest airline customer-abuse incident to potentially draw national outrage, video surfaced Friday of a crying mother with two children and the aftermath of an incident that allegedly involved a male flight

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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