SF News Second Southwest Flight In a Week Makes Emergency Landing In Bay Area It's Southwest Airlines' turn at being the one with all the publicized problems this week, with two of its jets flying out of the Bay Area needing to make emergency landings due to mechanical issues.
SF News Sacramento Woman Pleads Guilty to Knocking Out Flight Attendant's Teeth In one of the — grossly — many cases of assaults on flight attendants during this pandemic because Americans don't know how to behave, a Sacramento woman has pleaded guilty to punching a flight attendant on a Southwest flight in May.
Business & Tech Southwest Flight Attendants' Union Lodges Complaint With CEO Following Assault on NorCal Flight Airline passengers are getting angrier and harder to manage, according to a new letter from the union president representing Southwest Airlines flight attendants, which follows on one flight attendant getting two teeth knocked out by a passenger on Sunday.
SF News Plane Travel Slowly Returns, With Masks, Distancing, and Some Virus Profiteering One airline gets publicly dragged for charging a ‘More Room’ fee for social distancing, as the airline industry awkwardly adapts to the logistics of travel under COVID-19.
Arts & Entertainment Southwest Pilot Congratulates Flight Full Of Raiders Fans For Drinking All The Plane's Liquor Passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Kansas City last week, the day of a football game between the Raiders and the Chiefs, managed a rare and thirsty feat of cleaning
SF News SF Attorney Goes After United, American, And Delta Airlines For Possible Price-Fixing San Francisco attorney Joseph Alioto says it began on April 1st. On that day, he told CBS 5's Consumer Watch, United, American, and Delta airlines changed a policy that automatically charged the lowest
SF News Student Kicked Off Flight For Speaking Arabic Is Berkeley Senior, Iraqi Refugee Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, whom the Daily Californian reports is a 26-year-old Berkeley student in his senior year, had just boarded Southwest flight 4260 from Los Angeles to Oakland on April 6, planning to return
SF News 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
SF News Weird Odor Prompts Southwest Jet To Turn Around At Oakland Airport A Southwest flight bound for Burbank that took off from Oakland Airport just after 7 a.m. this morning had to turn around and land twenty minutes later after a mysterious odor filled
SF News Southwest Airlines Boots 'L Word' Actress for Same-Sex Kissing L-Word actress and musician Leisha Hailey took to Twitter yesterday after Southwest Airlines booted her and her girlfriend from a flight for kissing. According to Hailey, "Flt. attendant said that it was a
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Same-sex marriage bill OK'd, ready to be TKO'd by Arnold. [Chron] -- Obama in SF! [Examiner, via BCN] -- Boom! Bomb threat forces Southwest Airlines jet back to Oakland Airport. [CBS5] --
Arts & Entertainment We Will Soon 'Be Free To Move About The Country': Southwest Airlines Coming Back Continuing a string of semi-interesting news regarding lower-cost airlines, Southwest has announced that it's starting service directly to and from SFO on August 26. During a media conference at SFO last week, Gavin
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Forza La Forza del Destino, the latest production of the SF Opera, opened yesterday in a wonderful new production. The Opera completely reinvented this classic, and came up with a fresh and polemic take
