The Federal Aviation Administration no longer listed its San Francisco International Airport ground delay program at 11:07 a.m. Pacific Wednesday, Nov. 11. Low cloud ceilings had prompted the agency to restrict arrivals earlier in the morning, with an average assigned delay of 62 minutes.
The FAA's national status board no longer showed the program at that check. The airport-specific FAA report also showed no destination-specific delays for SFO at 11:07 a.m., though individual flights could still be running late.
The original FAA advisory covered flights originally expected to arrive from 8:30 a.m. through 12:59 p.m. Pacific. It applied to departures for San Francisco from airports in the contiguous United States within the program's 1,625-nautical-mile scope. The order listed a maximum assigned delay of 132 minutes.
The program spaces out arrivals by assigning later departure times to some flights headed to San Francisco. The average and maximum describe the FAA program. Neither number gives the latest estimate for a particular flight.
Check your flight before leaving for the airport
Look up your flight number with your airline or on San Francisco International Airport's flight status board. If you have a tight connection at SFO, compare your airline's revised arrival time with the next flight's boarding time and check the airline app for rebooking options.
Wednesday's program is separate from the Nov. 9 ground delay at SFO, which the FAA ended that day.
