Longest runway in the world6/16/2023 However, closer to Shanghai Pudong is Mexico City. Taxing out there will add, on average, 21.6 minutes to the journey. ![]() Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) is not far behind. That is close to an extra half hour waiting for the plane to get its turn on one of the airport's four operational runways. The latter's Pudong, PVG, takes the cake with a whopping 26.4 minutes on average. In order not to spoil the statistic fun, we'll reveal the previous order at the end of the article.Īt the top of the lengthiest taxi times sits Chinese airports serving the megapolises of Beijing and Shanghai. Meanwhile, the current number one airport used to be number two (although when corrected for the drop in traffic in the first few months of 2020, we may have found it would have claimed first). Despite the Polderbaan trek, passengers departing Amsterdam can currently expect to spend on average 12.7 minutes taxiing from the gate.īefore we dive into the figures, we should mention that when comparing them to data from the winter season of 2019/2020, nearly all numbers drop across the board. When looking at the data for AMS - Amsterdam Schiphol - it is nowhere near other airports across the globe when it comes to reaching the runway. The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, commonly known as Eurocontrol, publishes statistics over taxi in and taxi-out times in airports across the world twice per year - once for each IATA season. Photo: NielsB via Wikimedia Commons Still not back 'to normal' ![]() Schiphol's Polderbaan sits five kilometers away from the airport's terminals.
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