SF News FAA Announces New Landing Procedure to Speed Up Arrivals at SFO In an effort to address significant delays at SFO caused by a ban on parallel-runway landings in March, the FAA is now allowing staggered arrivals on clear days, which will increase the number of arrivals from 36 per hour to 42.
SF News United Flight Returns to SFO After Blowing Tire on Takeoff A United Airlines jet bound for Mexico had to turn around and make an emergency landing back at SFO Thursday morning after blowing a tire during takeoff, according to the FAA.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Anthropic Says Three of Its AI Models Hacked Into External Businesses SFO is getting private sleep lounges in the fall of 2027; SF City Attorney David Chiu is suing two hotel booking sites alleging they gouge customers; and some of Anthropic’s AI models hacked into the systems of three businesses.
SF News Woman From Ukraine Forcibly Detained at SFO In Viral Video; Feds Say She Overstayed Her Visa A 38-year-old photographer and cafe worker who's been living in San Francisco for over a decade was detained by ICE agents at SFO as she was returning from a trip to Portland Wednesday, in a video that has since gone viral.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pixar Layoffs Were Delivered Via ‘Elastigirl’ Letterhead At-large Oakland City Council member Rowena Brown says she was assaulted and robbed by an acquaintance; a Ukrainian woman was detained by ICE at SFO; and Pixar delivered its layoff notices on letterhead featuring Mrs. Incredible.
SF News United Airlines Employee at SFO Tells Customer 'Maybe We Should Call ICE On You' A confrontation over a ticket error at SFO last week led to a lengthy back-and-forth between ticket counter agents and a Bay Area father that culminated in a United Airlines employee telling the man "Maybe we should call on ICE on you."
SF News BART to Address Rush-Hour Congestion With Longer Trains, Streamlined Schedule In an effort to ease crowding on trains and help the system run more efficiently, BART is implementing longer trains during peak times on some lines, streamlining the schedule to reduce transfer wait times, and addressing bottlenecking at Daly City.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Technical Glitch Causes Check-In Delays at SFO There were delays at SFO's International Terminal Wednesday due to a technical issue with check-ins; a 3.5M earthquake shook San Benito County this morning; and a Napa County burglary suspect allegedly took a selfie of himself during the crime.
SF News Delays at SFO Skyrocket Following Runway Closure and New FAA Restrictions The average delay for flights at SFO quadrupled — from 5 minutes in 2025 to 20 minutes currently — after the FAA prohibited parallel landings in April, right as the airport began a repaving project that runs until early October.
SF News May Day Protest Shuts Down Departure-Level Roadway at SFO International Terminal, SF Supervisors Arrested A planned May Day protest at SFO was causing a bit of a disruption for air travelers Friday, with cars being redirected at the International Terminal and several city officials were among the arrestees after SFPD intervened.
SF News SFO to Start Allowing Non-Ticketed Guests Past Security, For Goodbyes and Greetings at Gates The image of a happy couple being reunited just after an air passenger steps off the jetway is something out of a 90s romcom. But it is going to start happening again, at long last, at San Francisco International Airport.
SF News Yes, We're Really Going to Be Calling It 'Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport' It seems as though San Francisco city officials have given in, and while the name is different from what was originally proposed, Oakland Airport is now legally able to put "San Francisco Bay" in its name.
SF Politics New DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin Threatens to Remove Customs From SFO, Other Sanctuary City Airports Newly installed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says that airports in sanctuary cities shouldn't have the privilege of processing international passengers, if they don't want to cooperate with ICE and Border Patrol.
SF News British Tourist Goes Missing After Arriving at SFO, Footage Shows Man Meeting Her The family of Katherine Kerwood, a 21-year-old woman from the UK who landed at SFO for a solo tour of Northern California last Tuesday, are searching for her whereabouts after her phone went silent Friday and they learned she never checked into her hostel when she landed.
SF News United Airlines Adds TSA Wait Time Tracker to Its App for SFO and Six Other Hubs Taking the guesswork out of how early you need to be at the airport, United Airlines has added a very helpful feature to its app, in the midst of an ongoing congressional impasse over the funding that keeps TSA operating.
SF News Actually, the SFO Repaving Project Will Probably Cause Fairly Frequent Delays, Due to FAA Restriction SFO was planning to put two parallel runways into use for simultaneous landings of planes over the next six months, as it repaves one of its runways, but the FAA has stepped in to say 'No, you won't.'
SF News Six-Month Runway Closure at SFO May Cause Some Delays It's time once again for some runway repaving at SFO, and that may mean some unexpected delays for the next six months, with the airport being short one of its four runways.
SF News TSA Tipped Off ICE About Woman Forcibly Detained at SFO We now have a fuller picture of what went down at Gate E2 at SFO's Terminal 3 on Sunday night, how ICE agents ended up there, and what happened with the woman afterwards.
SF News SFPD May Have Violated Sanctuary Laws By Helping ICE at SFO, Bystander Files Lawsuit A witness at SFO Sunday filed a complaint that SFPD officers violated sanctuary laws by shielding ICE agents in plainclothes from bystanders who were asking them to identify themselves, as the ICE agents attempted to restrain a woman being deported with her young daughter.
SF News ICE Not Deployed to Assist TSA at SFO, But They Were There Arresting Someone Sunday Night ICE agents are not be getting deployed at SFO as they are at other airports to assist TSA agents amid the partial government shutdown, but they were there on Sunday anyway, conducting an arrest.
SF News SFO, Oakland on FAA’s 'Hot Spot' List of Airports Most at Risk of Runway Close Calls Nine Bay Area airports, including SFO and Oakland, are on the FAA’s “hot spot” list notifying pilots about areas on the ground at US airports that could potentially be the sites of collisions or near-misses due to confusing layouts and busy runway crossings.
SF News Trump’s Garish Trump Force One Airplane Popped Into SFO Monday for Some Reason President Trump was not on his ridiculously self-named Trump Force One airplane when it blew through SFO on Monday, but maybe one of his idiot sons had crypto business in town or something, as the plane was spotted here.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Long Delays at SFO Due to Wind Inbound flights were delayed an average of four hours at SFO last night; the remains of a missing Santa Cruz woman have been ID'd; and a Palo Alto restaurant hosted Bad Bunny's private Super Bowl afterparty.
Business & Tech Waymo Started Taking Passengers to SFO Today Waymos are ferrying paying customers from SF to San Francisco International Airport for the first time on Thursday, but the robocars will not be able to take you directly to the terminals, at least not yet.
SF News MLK Day Around the Bay: 28-Year-Old SFO Worker Dies In Accident An SFO worker was killed in an accident Sunday; a high-speed rail collision in Spain led to 40 deaths; and an explanation of BART's nightly Grand Meet, which has been going on for 50 years.
