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Old Apr 2, 2026 | 8:56 am
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Originally Posted by 3dfx
Both the takeoff incident you referred to last year (UA1152 {SFO-DFW 13-May} went to the wrong route), and the AC taxiway near-miss incident back in 2017 (Exclusive: SFO near miss might have triggered ‘greatest aviation disaster in history’) are relatively recent examples. People just have short memories sometimes...
Are they going to block parallel take-offs now as well?

Cranky has a post about the SFO changes today, and in the post is a chart showing the distribution of arriving flights over the course of a day and which hours are impacted by the changes (i.e., exceed the new capacity cap).

https://crankyflier.com/2026/04/02/t...-capacity-cut/
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