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Old May 6, 2018, 8:35 am
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sltlyamusd
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: SFO, mostly
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I was very frustrated to experience this on three out of my last four flights.
Flew SFO-LAX two weeks ago, landed on-time but had to wait 20 minutes for our gate, resulting in late arrival at gate. Clear and calm winds.

SFO-OGG week ago Saturday, landed a few minutes late due to headwinds, then had to wait on tarmac 51 minutes for our gate to open up, resulting in total delay of 1 hour! Weather at destination was fine.

OGG-SFO yesterday, landed early, weather was good, no ATC delays at SFO. Never-the-less, had to wait 27 minutes for them to tow an already unloaded RON plane off our gate. End result was 10 minutes late into gate. Out of the three flights, this was the only one where we didn't actually log a late arrival due to waiting on the tarmac.

I know airports are busy these days, but I feel like they can do better considering that none of these flights occurred during weather/ATC situations...

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