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 FBI Investigating Unprovoked, Violent Assault on Sleeping Man Onboard United Flight Out of SFO A man is under arrest and under investigation by the FBI after an inflight incident on a Dulles-bound flight out of SFO Monday in which the man allegedly pummeled another man who was sleeping for no known reason.
SF News Alaska Airlines Pilot Who Nearly Downed Plane Goes on 'Good Morning America' as He Awaits Trial Joseph Emerson, the former Alaska Airlines pilot who attempted to shut off an SFO-bound plane's engines as he rode in the cockpit last fall, due to a bad and extended mushroom trip he was on, has given a new TV interview.
SF News Bay Area Airports Report Dramatic Surge in Holiday Travelers This Year San Francisco International Airport saw a 14% increase in travelers this year compared to last year.
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 Couple Flies From SFO to Hawaii While Knowingly COVID-Positive, Gets Arrested A married couple who live on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i recently flew home from San Francisco despite both having tested positive for COVID-19, and they were promptly arrested and charged with endangering other passengers on the plane.
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.
SF News 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
SF News Video: Slugfest On Oakland-Bound Southwest Flight Snuffed By Santa Clara Man The internet is chock full of airline confrontation videos lately. The latest involves an Oakland-bound Southwest flight that originated in Dallas, and it is quite a doozy. This one is less disturbing than
SF News 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
SF News 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
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 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 Sacramento-Bound JetBlue Flight Hits Crazy Turbulence, Puts Two Dozen In Hospital A JetBlue flight bound for Sacramento from Boston encountered severe turbulence Thursday that sent objects, passengers, and flight attendants flying through the cabin, resulting in 24 people needing treatment for injuries. As the
SF News $2.4 Billion SFO Terminal 1 Renovation Breaks Ground June 29 As the final stage of San Francisco International Airport's $4.1 billion 10-year capital improvement plan, Terminal 1 is getting partially demolished in favor of two new boarding areas, a central check-in and
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 [Update] Virgin America Sold To Alaska Airlines As reported last week, Virgin America put itself up for sale, and the boutique airline owned in part by Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson has reached a deal to be acquired by Alaska
SF News SF-Based Virgin America Mulls Takeover Offers From JetBlue, Alaska Airlines While this could spell sad news for fans of Virgin America and their guaranteed-to-be-pretty-comfortable and wi-fi-equipped planes, the company has reportedly put itself up for sale and now Bloomberg reports that they've received
SF News 'Ornery' Passenger Forces SFO-Bound Plane To Make Emergency Landing An unruly passenger prompted a flight heading to SFO to make an impromptu pitstop Saturday morning. Adding insult to injury, SkyWest flight 5345 had to land in Reno of all places. According to
SF News Profile Photo Shows Germanwings Co-Pilot Andreas Lubitz In Front Of Golden Gate As news has been breaking that 28-year-old co-pilot Andreas Lubitz apparently deliberately crashed the Germanwings flight and killed all 150 people on board on Tuesday, a single photo of Lubitz has surfaced showing
Arts & Entertainment Virgin America Signage Will Try to Keep Your Holiday Travel Nightmare Humorous SFO-based Virgin America has been trying to keep things light and breezy by letting gate agents get creative with their boarding screen messaging over the past couple of years. One example from a
SF News Allegiant Airlines Creates Day-Long Absurdist Horror Tale For Oakland Passengers Passengers trying to catch a flight out of Oakland Monday to Provo, Utah were treated to a completely ridiculous series of events that led them to be trapped on three separate planes through
SF News Asiana Suing KTVU Over Pilot-Naming Snafu [Update] Asiana Airlines said today that they will sue Bay Area station KTVU for accidentally broadcasting the now-infamous fake pilot names of flight 214. This comes one week after the airline caused the death
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Air Hostess Here's a little bit of 60s lounge to ease you into the afternoon, along with some footage of 1960s stewardesses, and vintage poster art for various airlines from the era, including Iran Air
SF News Airlines To Consider Letting You Keep Your iPad On During Takeoff Do a few Kindles and iPods and iPads really pose a threat to airline safety? We have always wondered this. Especially while sitting on the ground at JFK waiting an hour to take
