"The perfect storm' of an actual storm, government shutdown short-handedness, and a deluge of Dreamforce attendees left SFO all higgledy-piggledy on Monday, with thousands of travelers facing flight delays and reroutes. The love-it-or-hate-it corporate-palooza Dreamforce conference officially kicked off Tuesday morning, which meant somewhere between 45,000 and 50,000 buttoned-down business types have descended upon San Francisco. Of course a few thousand of them are locals, but a large chunk are Salesforce software customers arriving in SF for the conference,"
"And this all hit on one of SFO's biggest days of the year for business travel. The Chron reports that 434 SFO flights were delayed Monday, and seven of them canceled. That information comes from the flight-tracking website FlightAware. SFO's largest carrier United Airlines notched 142 delays, while Southwest Airlines stood out as having schedule disruptions on a full two-thirds of its flights."
A powerful storm combined with reduced air-traffic staffing tied to the government shutdown and a surge of Dreamforce attendees produced extensive operational disruptions at San Francisco International Airport. Nearly half of SFO flights were delayed Monday, with 434 delays and seven cancellations recorded by FlightAware. United experienced 142 delays while Southwest had schedule issues on about two-thirds of its flights. By about 11 a.m. Tuesday FlightAware's MiseryMap showed just 28 delays and one cancellation, indicating improvement. Weather remained the primary cause, with forecasts calling for additional Southern California storms and only scattered showers expected in San Francisco mid-week.
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