Originally Posted by
TopBunk
Forgive me here. I'm 14 years retired from a large European operator and operated regularly into many US airports(incl SFO) as Captain of a B747-400.
In my day, iirc, all European operators declined to be part of the LAHSO procedures, and I believe that was annotated in the FPL remarks.
It would seem that this could be a way of giving advance notification of Lufty's restrictions - no visual approaches at night, or some such?
LAHSO is always at the pilots discretion as ATC has no method to determine aircraft landing distances.