B737-800
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
ATC Issue All Types; Inflight Event / Encounter Wake Vortex Encounter
General None Reported / Taken
Environment - Non Weather Related; Procedure
ATC in San Diego were pushing hard on both our arrival flight and our departure flight. On the arrival flight; we were told to maintain 170 to the FAF and we were already close to the preceding aircraft such that we had to fly high on the glide path to avoid wake turbulence; and they cleared an aircraft on the runway before our arrival that just barely got airborne before we landed. On departure we were cleared for departure just after a B737 and just in front of a landing aircraft. We were much heavier and required more ground roll than the preceding aircraft and we ended up hitting their wake turbulence on departure. I realize that traffic is tight in SAN; however both of these incidents were too close for me. It would be better to build in a little more buffer between flights and not push so hard on all of us. This practice is an accident waiting to happen.
A B737-800 Captain expressed concern over aircraft spacing in SAN after experiencing wake turbulence on both arrival and departure.