Domestic Flights with Tarmac Times of More than 3 Hours and International Flights with Tarmac Times of More than 4 Hours, August 2017
Ranked by longest continuous tarmac time
Dataset Table:
Airline | Flight Date | Longest Continuous Tarmac Time (in mins.) | Stage of Operation* | Flight Number | Origin Airport | Origin City | Destination Airport | Destination City | Arrival Delay (in mins.) | Cause of Delay/Cancellation** | Diversion Airport | Diversion City | Diversion Airport Distance from Scheduled Destination | Reached Scheduled Destination | ||||
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Air Carrier | National Aviation System | Security | Weather | Late Arriving Aircraft | ||||||||||||||
Domestic Flights | ||||||||||||||||||
Allegiant | 8/17 | 207 | M | 471 | ABQ | Albuquerque, NM | LAS | Las Vegas, NV | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Air Wisconsin | 8/22 | 206 | C | 4258 | PHL | Philadelphia, PA | SDF | Louisville, KY | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
PSA | 8/22 | 198 | C | 5171 | PHL | Philadelphia, PA | STL | St.Louis, MO | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Alaska | 8/2 | 187 | D | 54 | PDX | Portland, OR | EWR | Newark, NJ | 270 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | SYR | Syracuse | 195 | Y |
Air Wisconsin | 8/22 | 184 | C | 4151 | PHL | Philadelphia, PA | MKE | Milwaukee, WI | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
American | 8/2 | 183 | C | 792 | PHL | Philadelphia, PA | MSP | Minneapolis, MN | N/A | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
American | 8/26 | 182 | C | 10 | LAX | Los Angeles, CA | JFK | New York, NY | N/A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Delta | 8/22 | 181 | M | 216 | JFK | New York, NY | PDX | Portland, OR | 672 | 672 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
JetBlue | 8/22 | 181 | M | 167 | JFK | New York, NY | OAK | Oakland, CA | 315 | 0 | 297 | 0 | 0 | 18 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
International Flights | ||||||||||||||||||
Virgin Australia | 8/26 | 269 | D | 24 | LAX | Los Angeles, CA | MEL | Melbourne, Australia | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | HNL | Honolulu, HI | 5514 | Y |
American | 8/18 | 242 | D | 805 | CUN | Cancun, Mexico | PHL | Philadelphia, PA | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ORF | Norfolk, VA | 212 | Y |
Dataset Excel:
combined (1).xlsx (27.5 KB)Notes:
International flight reports do not include arrival delay or cause of delay/cancellation flight data. These data are also not available for domestic flights reported by airlines that do not report monthly airline on-time data (Part 234) or for domestic charter flights reported by Part 234 carriers.
Description:
* Stage of Operation where 3-hour tarmac time took place:
C Prior to Cancellation: Flight left the gate but was canceled at the origin airport
D At Diversion Airport: The tarmac time at the alternate airport
M Multiple Gate Departure: Flight left the gate, then returned and then left again to resume normal operation. Tarmac time is the time before the return to the gate.
TI Taxi-in: The time between wheels-on and gate arrival
TO Taxi-out: The time between gate departure and wheels-off
** Cause of cancellation is 1 (if yes) or 0 (if no). Cause of delay for all other flights in minutes. No cause of delay or cause of diversion reported for diverted flights.
Source:
Bureau of Transportation Statistics