SF News FAA Announces New Landing Procedure to Speed Up Arrivals at SFO In an effort to address significant delays at SFO caused by a ban on parallel-runway landings in March, the FAA is now allowing staggered arrivals on clear days, which will increase the number of arrivals from 36 per hour to 42.
SF News North Bay Residents Demand FAA Keep Quieter Flight Path Used During Bohemian Grove Gathering West Sonoma County residents, who’ve been flooding the FAA with complaints over a change in 2024 that led to a large influx of planes flying over their homes, are outraged the FAA temporarily reverted to the old flight path for elite Bohemian Grove visitors last month.
SF News Over 400 SFO Flights Delayed Monday as FAA Restrictions Continue to Limit Runway Capacity Flight delays at SFO on the Monday following a very busy July 4th weekend were averaging one to two hours, largely due to ground construction as well as FAA restrictions limiting arrivals — made worse by cancellations on the East Coast.
SF News Delays at SFO Skyrocket Following Runway Closure and New FAA Restrictions The average delay for flights at SFO quadrupled — from 5 minutes in 2025 to 20 minutes currently — after the FAA prohibited parallel landings in April, right as the airport began a repaving project that runs until early October.
SF News SFO, Oakland on FAA’s 'Hot Spot' List of Airports Most at Risk of Runway Close Calls Nine Bay Area airports, including SFO and Oakland, are on the FAA’s “hot spot” list notifying pilots about areas on the ground at US airports that could potentially be the sites of collisions or near-misses due to confusing layouts and busy runway crossings.
SF News FAA Swears They’ll Cut US Air Flights by 10% This Week Because of the Government Shutdown Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the Trump administration will start cutting US airline flight capacity by 10% starting Friday thanks to the government shutdown, though it’s unclear whether SFO flights will be affected.
SF News FAA Changes SFO Landing Rules After Air Canada Near-Miss Following a widely publicized near-disaster at SFO last month in which an Air Canada jet came within feet of crashing into four planes full of people on a taxiway, the FAA is
SF News Man Crashes Drone Into Farmers' Market, Then Gets Mad About Being Photographed Only in SF? Here's an alternate headline: Man Surreptitiously Photographing People At Farmers' Market Suddenly Has Privacy Concerns About Being Photographed. You've got tech, farmers' markets, inconsiderate
SF News Twitter Patents Crowdsourced Tweet-Controlled Drone, FAA (Presumably) Cries Like its fluttery mascot, Twitter dreams of flight. The social media titan was granted a patent last week for a tweet-controlled drone, with user actions on the platform (think retweets) somehow determining
SF News FAA Would Like You To Narc On Irresponsible Drone Fliers Near SFO When someone almost crashed their drone into a California Highway Patrol helicopter last weekend, we hoped this prominent case of boneheadedness might serve as ample warning to other drone pilots to keep their
SF News Rash Of Laser Pointer Pranks Beleaguers Bay Area Aircraft Five years after the Federal Aviation Administration raised the alarm that Bay Area incidents of aircraft pilots "shot" by laser pointers were at an unprecedented rate, reports of area residents shining
SF News Southwest Pilots Spot Five-Foot Drone While Landing At Oakland Airport Some pilots aboard a Southwest flight landing at Oakland International Airport Saturday evening reported seeing a "fairly good-sized drone" in restricted airspace, just off to the plane's right
SF News Airlines To Consider Letting You Keep Your iPad On During Takeoff Do a few Kindles and iPods and iPads really pose a threat to airline safety? We have always wondered this. Especially while sitting on the ground at JFK waiting an hour to take
SF News Delayed Eastbound Flights From SFO, Oakland, Due to Previous FAA Computer Crash For anyone who might be reading this before heading to the airport, expect delayed flights today. Although the FAA's Atlanta-based computer system is back up after an earlier system crash,
