Overview
- The FAA maintained a ground delay program that capped SFO arrivals at 25 per hour on Thursday, later increasing the rate to 28 per hour into Friday to manage strong winds.
- Flight-tracking services counted hundreds of delays on Christmas Day with only a handful of cancellations, and early Friday tallies showed at least 153 delayed flights.
- Average delays were about 24 minutes late Thursday morning, with an FAA advisory warning that waits could grow toward two hours with peaks near three hours.
- A PG&E-related electrical issue around 3 a.m. Thursday briefly cut power to parts of two terminals, two runways and baggage systems, which crews fully restored by about 6 a.m.
- Emergency generators supported two landings and one takeoff during the outage, while Oakland and San Jose airports reported minimal disruption as the Bay Area dealt with flooding, downed trees and a tornado warning in Santa Cruz and Scotts Valley.