Responding to robust demand and added flights to Newark, Cleveland, and Houston, United Airlines has pulled a "Newark" on us at San Francisco International Airport.

To understand what it means to "pull a Newark" you must be familiar with United's operations at Newark's Liberty International Airport. In a word, ugh.

Faced with a post-merger gate shortage, flights will continue to operate out of Continental's old gate area in Terminal A. That means if you are connecting, plan on ...

You can read part one of my multi part trip report about my debacle on “The Worlds Leading Airline” United. Here

Now as we arrive in the Z gate area of Frankfurt airport I see a sea of people ahead of me, you can hear yelling and crying. I walk right into the mess and to my dismay it is right at my gate for my SFO flight. I was then approached by some contracted security person for UNITED that I recognize from past flights. This person was not with UA or LH but a ...

CLEAR, the program which allows enrolled passengers the ability to bypass the TSA document check lanes, by using a kiosk instead, has just announced that DFW airport will be the next airport to feature a CLEAR lane. Information regarding the placement of CLEAR at DFW has not yet been published, although an email to all members has said that they're hoping to be online by the Spring, which should mean that we'll know more in the coming weeks. Additionally, the talks with the SFO airport ...

So I'm checking into the my flight at the United Premier section of SFO, and things are going just fine. I notice a man with a dog to the right of me. I take notice because it doesn't look like a seeing eye dog, and it doesn't have any sort of "clothing" on to identify itself as a special dog. It looks like this guy just brought his pet in here. Whatever - this is San Francisco. I turn back toward the counter and stop caring. Then I hear the ...

United Family Day is an annual occurence at the SFO Maintenance Base where United celebrates its employees and provides fun activities for families and employees including plane tours, car show, giveaways, and more.  

And yes, that was both retrojets next to each other.

The engine from an Airbus aircraft.

They also offer a plane pull, and while I was going to miss the ...

For United Family Day, I met up with some friends and we originally were going to stay at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco as there was no room available at the Regency SFO.  However, room opened up, and the convenience of the Regency SFO beat out the fancier Grand Hyatt.

The Room

The room was a standard hotel room with nothing special, but nothing really bad.

Standard comfortable Hyatt beds, and a modern decor.  I was upgraded to a higher level (only ...