According to a survey by flight perk maximization site Upgraded Points (UP), New York City’s LaGuardia Airport topped the list when it came to most time wasted taxiing: 23 minutes on the tarmac, per the study. UP determined the biggest time-wasting flight hubs by analyzing data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Google Flights to find out the “average flight delays, taxi-out times and layover durations when departing from 50 of the nation’s largest airports.”
Overall, UP found that passengers endure an average of 29 minutes of lost time: 12 due to departure delays, and another 17 minutes on the runway before takeoff.
Other New York area airfields also had a poor showing: John F. Kennedy International Airport placed seventh, with an average layover time of 4 hours and 4 minutes, while Newark Liberty International Airport came in ninth at an even four hours of passenger downtime. UP attributed JFK’s “lost” time to limited runway space, which requires more time for planes to maneuver in tighter quarters.
Source: MSN
