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Feb 20, 2017 | 11:18 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Arginine

02/20/17, UAL 1840*, phx-sfo

*codeshare
(AC) Air Canada 5787
(CM) Copa Airlines 1782
(LX) SWISS 3271
(NZ) Air New Zealand 9794

Quote:

Originally Posted by WineCountryUA

Many flights to SFO today were delayed due to weather conditions at SFO. Perhaps someone twisted that into the weather conditions were "unsuitable" for flights. Today's SFO conditions can cause SFO to be reduced to one active runway and many flights need to be cancelled due to the reduced landing capacity -- ATC restricts the number of flight arrivals / departures at these times.

It was raining cats and dogs today, especially this evening. I'm sure it was an ATC/weather delay.

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