Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&amp;P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.

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A new FAA safety measure at San Francisco International Airport (KSFO) prohibits arriving airplanes from flying side-by-side during approaches in VMC to the airport’s parallel east-west runways.&nbsp;General aviation traffic flying into KSFO will face the same delays, which will be instituted by an FAA ground delay program, according to an airport spokesman. “The mechanism to achieve this reduced arrival rate would apply to business/GA flights as well.”
According to KSFO traffic statistics for January, Part 91 general and business aviation accounted for 2.1% of operations—698 out of 32,546 landing and takeoffs. Part 135 air charter operations reached 2,641, or 8.1% of total operations at the airport. Under the new procedures, arrivals will drop from 54 to 36 per hour.
The safety measure came about from a regular quarterly quality-assurance review, according to an FAA spokesman, and has nothing to do with risk assessments following the January 2025 midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (KDCA).
The FAA warned that the airport also “will experience some flight delays due to a runway repaving project.”&nbsp;This runway project, which isn’t related to the the parallel runway approach prohibition, will cause delays due to plans to close the two north-south runways for a six-month repaving and upgrade project scheduled to end on October 2.

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