SFO Woes

Here's wishing Voice readers an early happy Memorial Day.  Many of you will be travelling so this warning may be useful

Major flight delays and numerous cancellations are expected at San Francisco International Airport this Memorial Day weekend because of maintenance work that needs to be completed on the tarmac before the summer rush, officials said Monday.  

A $35 million repaving project scheduled for weekends this spring was supposed to be put on hold this Saturday and Sunday to accommodate holiday travel. But after the work fell behind, officials decided they couldn’t afford to take the weekend off.

I got back from a trip last night and got a surprise at SFO (which isn't easy given how much I have traveled in and out of SFO over the last 30+ years).  The surprise was a 50 minute wait for a gate to become available to park the plane.  We were about 10 minutes early and then sat on the tarmac...and sat...and sat.  We eventually had to taxi to another bit of tarmac to get out of other planes' way.  The United pilot said he had never seen anything like it.

Comments

[Joe]

The Chronicle is reporting today that when notified in March of a three week closure of one runway for repairs (25% of capacity since there are four runways), the airlines reduced scheduled flights by 13%. What could go wrong?