By Tim O’Rourke

And you thought SFO was packed before your last flight.
The Chronicle’s front page from Aug. 30, 1954, covers the opening of the San Francisco International Airport Terminal Building and the huge party heralding the project.
“As befits a city paying its tribute to the air age, San Francisco provided some stratospheric and awesome figures yesterday at the Flight Festival celebrating the completion of its new $14,000,000 Airport Terminal Building,” the story read.
“The crowd was unbelievable. It numbered 338,000 persons.”
Now that’s a crowded airport.
The front-page photo that has The Chronicle nameplate printed within it shows the tens of thousands of cars arranged in semi-circles outside SFO. All those automobiles brought most of the attendees and they, in turn, spent a whole lot of money at the airport.
“There were 95,000 sales inside the building at its restaurant, lunch counters and cocktail lounges,” the story read. “There were 100,000 sales of hot dogs and beer, spun sugar candy and soda pop at the tents set up alongside the big airliners.”
The food and drinks weren’t the draw, though.
“It was the planes which were the main attraction for the crowds,” The Chronicle’s Michael Harris wrote. “Even veterans of the aviation industry who remembered the days when they had amazed San Franciscans while barnstorming at the mudflats which have been rebuilt into the a $50,000,000 airport were unprepared for the awed reception.”
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http://kron4.com/2016/08/10/crews-respond-to-small-plane-crash-in-san-jose/

​SAN JOSE (KRON) — Emergency crews are responding to a small plane crash in San Jose Wednesday morning.
The plane rolled off the runway at the Reid-Hillview Airport near Tully Road and South King Road at around 11:20 a.m., according to authorities.
A student pilot and flight instructor walked away without injuries after the crash that ended up blocking part of a major thoroughfare in the city Wednesday morning, a fire spokesman said.
San Jose firefighters got a call at 10:38 a.m. about the incident at the airport and arrived four minutes later to find the plane had overran the runway, crashed through the fence and came to a stop on Tully Road, fire spokesman Capt. Christopher Salcido said.
The plane went through a fence and was blocking traffic on westbound Tully Road between Capitol Expressway and Eastridge Way.
Salcido said two men in the plane, the pilot and passenger, were not injured. He said it was also fortunate that no vehicles were struck by the plane on Tully Road, a busy street in the city....

Daniel Bates of Oakland was supposed to be at a family reunion in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Instead, he was in line early Monday morning with hundreds of strangers at San Francisco International Airport. He was waiting to get re-booked onto a flight  after spending the night sleeping in a chair.

Bates is just one passenger grounded by a power outage that shut down Delta Airlines for nearly six hours starting just after midnight Pacific Standard Time. The airlines resumed a limited number of flights just after 6 a.m. PST.
Adding insult to injury, Bates has not flown since the 1990s.

“I have to decide, whether to go home and say 'never mind' on the family reunion or wait here for another flight,” he said.

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NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Ciniva Web Agency today launched a completely redesigned, user-focused website on behalf of Oakland (Calif.) International Airport.

The project marks yet another milestone in Ciniva's growing portfolio of travel and tourism work, which includes Currituck Outer Banks, BarbadosBarbados, the Virginia Bed & Breakfast Association and the Jamestown/Yorktown Foundation.

"Our challenge with OaklandAirport.com was to create a website that served a number of different audiences – business and leisure travelers, airport concessionaires and contractors, and anyone interested in doing business at the airport," said Ciniva President Steve Van Leeuwen. "Our team stood up to the challenge. They took a large, multi-layered website and made it feel and function much smaller.  We are proud to represent Oakland International Airport in the digital world."

OaklandAirport.com leads visitors through a contemporary, actionable web environment that feels easy and natural to navigate. With a clean, crisp design and a clear user journey, OaklandAirport.com was designed to help users quickly and easily find what they need.

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