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1 week ago | 
kcra.com | Silas Valentino
Editorial Standards ⓘ A flight from San Francisco International Airport was central in a criminal case involving a man who posed as a flight attendant on more than 120 flights for free travel.
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2 weeks ago | 
sfgate.com | Silas Valentino
A flight from San Francisco International Airport was central in a criminal case involving a man who posed as a flight attendant on more than 120 flights for free travel. Last week, a federal jury convicted Tiron Alexander, a 35-year-old man from Florida, of wire fraud and entering into a secure area of an airport by false pretenses. According to the Washington Post, Alexander was arrested in February 2024 attempting to fly from SFO to Australia.
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2 weeks ago | 
sfgate.com | Silas Valentino
It didn’t take long for a Bay Area tourism board to realize that its new contract with a cyber company was generating buzz. During the Walnut Creek City Council meeting last week, Visit Walnut Creek gave an annual report highlighting a specific analysis it requested to learn more about city visitors. It focused on a basketball tournament for grade-school girls held in the city during early May.
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2 weeks ago | 
sacbee.com | Silas Valentino
After closing for two years, a steel bridge over the Virgin River in Zion National Park that's carried countless visitors to one of the park's classic hikes recently moved about 100 feet upstream. The National Park Service reopened the 42-year-old bridge on Tuesday, reconnecting Zion Lodge with the Emerald Pools Trail system once again.
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2 weeks ago | 
sfgate.com | Silas Valentino
After closing for two years, a steel bridge over the Virgin River in Zion National Park that’s carried countless visitors to one of the park’s classic hikes recently moved about 100 feet upstream. The National Park Service reopened the 42-year-old bridge on Tuesday, reconnecting Zion Lodge with the Emerald Pools Trail system once again.
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2 weeks ago | 
sfgate.com | Silas Valentino
The other day, Melissa Boon said an odd occurrence kept repeating at the front desk in the hotel she co-owns in a remote hamlet on the North Coast. The Elk Cove Inn & Spa is one of three hotels in the tiny town of Elk, a recent darling for California travelers. Boon said a person frantically phoned the inn asking for an immediate reservation, adding that their room at the Sacred Rock Inn down the road was suddenly canceled.
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3 weeks ago | 
sfgate.com | Silas Valentino
The airline with the worst on-time performance from San Francisco International Airport over the past several years continues to be plagued by delays but insists it’s improving. Air India, which flies from SFO to three cities in India, appeared at the top of a recent analysis from the San Francisco Chronicle that ranked airlines by their delays and cancellations on flights from San Francisco between 2020 and 2024.
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3 weeks ago | 
sfgate.com | Silas Valentino
A popular food blog has recirculated a misleading tip about Costco membership cards being a valid form of identification. In response, the Transportation Security Administration is downplaying the direction and warning travelers that doing so could lead to delays and a travel headache. It’s a fallacy that TSA spokesperson Lorie Dankers said she hears every 12 to 18 months.
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4 weeks ago | 
sfgate.com | Silas Valentino
On the first floor of a stately gray building at Civic Center is the Adult Immunization and Travel Clinic, whose health care providers are available to Bay Area travelers and the general public. Inside, the nurse’s window perfectly frames the San Francisco City Hall rotunda across from Grove Street. Since 1999, the Adult Immunization and Travel Clinic, a service provided by the city’s Department of Public Health, has offered travelers individual medical assessments.
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1 month ago | 
sfgate.com | Silas Valentino
One of the most exclusive airport lounges at San Francisco International Airport is even harder to access, as the airport’s multiyear construction project is forcing the glossy fortress to close for a couple years. The American Express Centurion Lounge, which can be found on the mezzanine level in Terminal 3, shuttered Tuesday, One Mile at a Time reported, with SFO continuing to modernize the terminal that’s largely occupied by United Airlines.
