Travelers wanting to fly nonstop between the D.C. area and San Francisco must currently trek out to Dulles. But that’s changing in May when United introduces the first nonstop flight between Reagan and SFO.

Seeing and hearing jets fly over the District is nothing new for Washington residents. That said, you’d be excused from checking out the headline on this AP item — “Military training flights soaring over region” — and simply moving along. But then you’d miss this little nugget of information!

Going to the airport has always kind of sucked, hasn’t it? Long lines, terrible food, expensive parking, people running all over the place like headless chickens with rolling luggage — don’t even get me started on what it’s like if your flight gets delayed or you’re running late. That said, I can only imagine how messy things might be after all the recent hubbub about the Transportation Security Administration’s new screening policies.

The Post’s Martin Weil reported late last night that a Brussels-bound United Airlines flight had to return to Dulles after one of its tires blew during takeoff. A missing section of runway pavement was deemed the culprit, after debris — whatever was left of the tire, one assumes — was found on the ground after the plane had gotten into the air around 6 p.m. According to The Aviation Herald, the plane burned fuel to…