There’s a rumor being circulated by pilots and JonNYC on Twitter and Bluesky that the FAA has banned parallel visual approaches at SFO indefinitely, instead requiring staggered ILS approaches, due to “everything that’s been going on” and not the recently started runway construction. This would lower the hourly arrival rate from 50-something to 36 per hour.

For what it’s worth, during UA’s peak evening arrival bank tonight, there were 52 scheduled arrivals across all airlines according to FR24, and a handful seemed to have 30-60 minute ground delays at their respective departure airports. Curious to see how this plays out with UA’s schedules in the coming weeks and months.