It takes just over an hour by air to get to San Jose from San Diego.

It will take the SDSU basketball team 24.

The No. 23-ranked Aztecs left campus after practice Friday afternoon but now aren’t scheduled to arrive until Saturday afternoon, assuming they don’t encounter any more flight delays or cancellations.

Their Southwest Airlines flight to San Jose was first delayed several hours and then outright canceled due to the thick blanket of fog that descended on San Diego International Airport and turned the airport into what coach Brian Dutcher said was “the worst I’ve ever seen it, ever.”

Instead, the team recalled the bus that transported it to the airport, went to dinner in Mission Valley and then headed to Newport Beach for the night in a hotel. Saturday morning, they’ll fly from John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana to Oakland — too late for their original shootaround slot at San Jose’s SAP Center ahead of their 7:30 p.m. game against Cal. The hope was to arrange a later shootaround, if time permits, after busing from Oakland.

SDSU annually is the only top 25 team — and one of the few in the Mountain West — not to exclusively travel via charter flights. Other than two or three trips, it flies commercial, usually on Southwest.

“It would have been nice,” Dutcher said of chartering, “but it is what it is. We adjust. That’s what we do.”

By earlier evening, according to the FlightAware website, inbound flights to San Diego were delayed at their origin close to two hours. As delays and cancellations mounted, the airport was overwhelmed and, Dutcher said, stopped allowing passengers through security into the gate areas. Lines at the ticket counter snaked through the terminal with holiday travelers anxious to find alternative means to reach their destination.

“We’re hoping for no more delays,” Dutcher said.

The last time flight issues forced the Aztecs to arrive the day of a game instead of the standard night before was 2012, when a charter flight to Wyoming landed in Cedar City, Utah, to refuel and got stuck in a snowstorm overnight. The Aztecs completed the trip to Laramie the next morning, did a pregame walk-through in a hotel ballroom, won 54-42, and then reboarded the plane for the journey home.