SFO's Busiest Runway (28L) Closed 9/7-27/2019: What You Need to Know
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Lots of chatter over in the UA forum thread about this topic and interestingly, UA pulled an AS and bussed people from SFO to SJC this am to operate a SLC flight. The 1st day has not gone well for UA, but I haven't looked at AS' performance today.
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Basically when gatehold is in effect, the controllers in the tower create a *virtual* cue for departures so that the aircraft await their turn while still in the gate, hopefully better managing the cues of aircraft at the runway(s). So you might not be stuck in line on the taxiway, but you might instead be stuck sitting on the aircraft at the gate... I suppose that's more of a semantic difference, if the issue is being strapped into your seat and not going anywhere.
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When I had glanced at the monitor earliers in the afternoon it looked like a number of the OO/QX ERJ-175 flights were operating ex-SJC. That said, overall AS seemed to be experiencing less disruption than UA, although many of the evening arrivals from the midwest and east coast are still delayed because of ATC.
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We'll, I'm smack dab right in the middle of it right now. My 9 pm AS flight was delayed 60+ minutes, so I switched to the 8 pm that's currently showing 8:30 (and I'm on board). I kept an eye on the flight board today and it was better than a classic SFO winter weather day. FR24 says 54 cancelled flights today (6 yesterday!?) With ~250 delayed flights thus far.
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Looked like they were pretty close to this scenario all day today. Could have been worse.
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In ABQ right now and they just announced the SFO SkyWest flight is now an OAK flight with a bus to SFO. Better solution than the two United ABQ-SFO flights here, one of which is delayed over four hours and the other of which is canceled.
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How soon before departure did they announce this ? We are on AS 762 (SEA-> SFO) on 9/12 and need to get to the Bay area before 10 AM. Considering making an alternate reservation for SEA -> OAK (last minute fares are $300+ each).
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That's kind of misleading. That would be for a new flight plan filed. Airlines have canceled or reduced arrivals to reduce this delay. Most of the delays are nowhere close to this number.
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0531 PDT: Scope CONUS+BC/AB; Arr time 0700-2159 PDT; Max/avg delay 343/212 min.
1818 PDT revision: Arr time -0059 PDT; Max/avg delay 1448/300 min.
2252 PDT: GDP canceled.
So flights not yet airborne at 1818 PDT were subject to an average delay of 300 min. Airline cancellations after that time would've shortened the delay. And after 2252 PDT, any SFO-bound flight could take off unrestricted.
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Not unexpected but based off convo with GAs in seattle yesterday, this might be stressing AS operations a bit. They told me basically all flights yesterday to bay area (all 3 airports) were sold out, most oversold. My flight had a massive list of people on standby as well. They were offering $650 to be bumped until 10am this morning. Probably should have taken it in retrospect.
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Not unexpected but based off convo with GAs in seattle yesterday, this might be stressing AS operations a bit. They told me basically all flights yesterday to bay area (all 3 airports) were sold out, most oversold. My flight had a massive list of people on standby as well. They were offering $650 to be bumped until 10am this morning. Probably should have taken it in retrospect.
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Not unexpected but based off convo with GAs in seattle yesterday, this might be stressing AS operations a bit. They told me basically all flights yesterday to bay area (all 3 airports) were sold out, most oversold. My flight had a massive list of people on standby as well. They were offering $650 to be bumped until 10am this morning. Probably should have taken it in retrospect.