{"id":454205,"date":"2026-09-05T06:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454205\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T06:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:14:12","slug":"multiple-flights-delayed-at-san-diego-international-airport-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454205\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple flights delayed at San Diego International Airport \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delays of about two hours have been affecting flights arriving into and departing from the San Diego International Airport on Friday afternoon, just as travel for the Labor Day weekend gets underway, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.san.org\/arrivals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">airport&#8217;s website<\/a> and the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The delays were averaging about 122 minutes, according to the FAA. About 420 flights were delayed at SAN on Friday by 6 p.m., according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/cancelled\/today\/SAN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">FlightAware.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A drone and a weather balloon were spotted near the airport, causing the delays, SAN Public Information Officer Nicole Hall told NBC San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Weather balloons are the best platform for gathering a variety of weather-related data, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Around 2 p.m., the objects were spotted near the airport, prompting the FAA to temporarily pause arrivals and departures, Hall told NBC San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>By about 4:30 p.m., the FAA reported an all-clear and all airport operations have resumed, Hall said.<\/p>\n<p>Hall added that Airfield Operations would continue to monitor the situation with the FAA, TSA, and local law enforcement. The drone activity is being investigated by the TSA law enforcement, Hall said.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on flights arriving into and out of SAN, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.san.org\/arrivals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were at our gate and they told us at around 3:20 when we were supposed to board at 3:25 that there was going to be a slight delay and then next thing you know, there was a 3.5 hour delay,&#8221; traveler Abigail Matossian said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey told me there was a drone over the airport earlier today. Total delay time, about an hour, hour and a half,&#8221; Brad Hornick said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy delay was 3.5 hours I believe,&#8221; Matossian said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo and a half hours,&#8221; Karisa Stewart said of her delay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delays of about two hours have been affecting flights arriving into and departing from the San Diego International&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,815,75],"class_list":["post-454205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-international-airport","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}