SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS Radio) -- An emergency pavement repair job at San Francisco International Airport triggered flight delays on Thursday.
SFO spokesman Doug Yakel said the problem was a pothole-like depression on Runway 28-L, a heavily-used runway for arriving flights at SFO.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the work was causing delays of more than an hour for arriving flights. Those delays were likely to lead to departure delays as aircraft turnarounds were impacted.
Due to RWY-TAXI/CONSTRUCTION traffic mgmt prgrm causing some arriving flight delays averaging 1 hour and 13 minutes. #SFO
— SFO Flight Delays (@FlyFAA_SFO) April 11, 2019The runway problem is at a busy location. Yakel said two-thirds of all SFO flights cross the region where the pavement buckled. The area had already been scheduled for a more extensive reconstruction project set to begin in September.
