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Check Your Aiport's Delay Record Before You Travel
Posted by Gina Trapani at 3:05 PM on December 21, 2007
Wired magazine reports that the year 2007 was the worst ever when it came to airport delays, and they put together a handy Google map of major airports' delay report cards. At my home airport in San Diego, almost 16% of all departing flights are delayed (as was my holiday flight home this week), which is a lot better than New York's JFK airport's whopping 30%. What about yours? Check out the map before you decide what time to leave home for the airport. (Beware: not all airports are on the map.)
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Gina Trapani, Lifehacker Editor
Posted 8:20 PM 20/12/07
Oy! Fixed, thanks!
Gina Trapani, Lifehacker Editor
callingshotgun
Posted 8:14 PM 20/12/07
Groovy!
FYI, typo in the title- "Aiport" :)
callingshotgun
Ecoaster
Posted 5:35 AM 21/12/07
No matter what the airport's track record is, you should still arrive there in time to make your flight's original scheduled time. Knowing this data really has nothing to do with what time you should leave. Some airlines even tell you that flights listed as "Delayed" earlier in the day may actually end up leaving on time.
Ecoaster
nad
Posted 6:53 AM 21/12/07
If you Google an airport code followed by the word airport the top result will give you a rundown of the conditions. Like "phl airport"
nad
BK88
Posted 8:04 AM 21/12/07
www.avoiddelays.com - The nation's air traffic controllers put it up to help out flyers.
BK88
kooky
Posted 9:13 PM 20/12/07
All my airports are bad (NYC) average time between the three is around 63 minutes. I think I remember reading somewhere that New York always has the worst delays.
kooky
laddibugg
Posted 11:42 AM 23/12/07
@kooky:
Of course the NYC area has the most delays. There are 3 major airports within 25-30 miles of each other. That's a lot of planes in the sky, and that's not counting the numerous municipal airports in the area AND the helicopters. There is nowhere else in the country, and possibly the world whose airspace is as densely populated.
laddibugg