Business & Tech United Airlines Sends Furlough Notices To Almost Half Its U.S. Employees In a sign of growing trouble for the airline industry, United Airlines has sent mandated 60-day job-cut warnings to 36,000 of its employees — or nearly half of its U.S. staff.
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.
Business & Tech United Is Now Disinfecting All Tray Tables, Not Letting Passengers Reach For Their Own Water Cup United Airlines announced in a note to frequent travelers Monday that it is ramping up and changing its cleaning and inflight service procedures to address the coronavirus outbreak — and encourage more people to get on planes, which, good luck.
Business & Tech United Airlines Suspends 48 China Flights, Including 8 Routes From SFO, Amid Virus Outbreak The quickly spreading coronavirus outbreak in China is set to begin impacting air travel to Asia as United Airlines just announced it is suspending 48 flights between the U.S. and China.
SF News Houston Family's Dog Dies In United Flight Cargo Hold En Route To SFO A five-year-old King Charles spaniel named Lulu died aboard a United Airlines flight from Houston to San Francisco recently, and the family is pointing blame at the airline. The Houston family told their
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 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 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 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 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 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 Singer Says She Was Kicked Off SFO Flight Because Her Kid Was Crying A photo posted by Sarah Blackwood (@thesarahblackwood) on Jun 12, 2014 at 11:29am PDT Sarah Blackwood, an Ontario-based musician and mom to 2-year-old Giorgio, was just trying to fly from San Francisco
SF News United Airlines Crew Fired For Refusing To Fly On Aircraft With Threat Scrawled On It A 13-person crew of United Airlines flight attendants based at San Francisco International Airport were fired last year following an incident in which they refused to fly aboard an aircraft that had a
SF News Sad-Eyed Dog Dies On United Flight to San Francisco A 140-pound mastiff failed to make the flight from Miami to San Francisco International Airport last month. The cause of death: a sweltering four-hour layover in Houston, apparently. According to the dog's owner,
SF News SFO-Bound Plane Evacuated In Denver Due To Bomb Threat An United Airlines plane headed for San Francisco Airport was evacuated in Denver after authorities got wind of a bomb threat. Yikes! "Carrie Harmon of the Transportation Security Administration, according to Associated Press,
SF News Threatening Sticker Diverts SFO Flight to Germany A United Airlines flight from SFO to Frankfurt, Germany needed to make an emergency stop in Chicago on Sunday. It seems that a crew member discovered a "sticker with a threatening message in
SF News United Airlines Computer Meltdown Strands Thousands Over the Weekend A computer glitch that caused passenger data to disappear off of United Airlines computer systems caused the airline to have to cancel several dozen flights Friday night, including some out of SFO, and
