Originally Posted by
Boraxo
IMO SFO does not get a free pass here. They could easily tell airlines they are revoking X slots per airline (fairly distributed) for 3 weeks and then leave it up to airline to decide which flights get cancelled. Instead they simply punt the entire problem to the airlines and expect them to figure it out. And we can all see how well that works.
I think this would require more changes to the normal metering program... even though the runway issues are known they still don't issue the GDP until each morning, which a forecast for the day.
Originally Posted by
Boraxo
I know that others may differ but I would strongly prefer a flight cancellation (particularly with some advance notice) than a flight that is 5 hours delayed. I can make alternative plans for the former - I'm up a creek for the latter.
In general I prefer the delay when it is announced well it advance, but overall it has been outrageously irresponsible for airlines to continue to operate the schedules they have into SFO when they
know the AAR isn't going over 27.
It would be nice if they allowed coterminal changes to QSF, but since UA doesn't serve OAK and their SJC schedule is a joke not sure it would help much.