CO18Heavy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 3134 times:
I would think that IAH, DFW, and DEN are up there for the least amount of delays for busy airports. Sure, IAH and DFW get some summer thunderstorms but they are usually able to get back to normal pretty quickly since none of them have intersecting runways.
DEN biggest problem is probably the snow in the winter but there isn't much you can do about that. When the shit hits the fan, all airports will experience problems.
HeyWhaTheHay From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (4 years 11 months 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 3132 times:
Quoting CO18Heavy (Reply 1): DEN biggest problem is probably the snow in the winter but there isn't much you can do about that. When the shit hits the fan, all airports will experience problems.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Well thats kind of what Im getting at. Thing is, some airports just DON'T have weather delays, atleast compared to the rest of the country. I could name a few , but I'll leave that up to you guys.
Parallel runways and prevailing winds certainly help. Lack of major hub operations ?
JFK for instance.
Imagine how fast they could launch and recover aircraft there, if they didn't have:
both winter and summer storm delays
intersecting runways
a spread out, and a bit confusing ground layout
LAXintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22219 posts, RR: 51 Reply 7, posted (4 years 11 months 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 3055 times:
Why guess -- the DOT published the hard data.
Best Departure Ontime performance amongst large US Airports were;
January 1 - December 31, 2007 %
1 Salt Lake City, UT (SLC) 83.91
2 Portland, OR (PDX) 83.56
3 San Diego, CA (SAN) 82.52
4 Tampa, FL (TPA) 81.15
5 Los Angeles, CA (LAX) 80.20
6 Oakland, CA (OAK) 79.73
7 Houston, TX (IAH) 79.73
8 Orlando, FL (MCO) 79.26
9 Fort Lauderdale, FL (FLL) 78.47
10 St. Louis, MO (STL) 77.84
Pilotboi From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 2366 posts, RR: 10 Reply 8, posted (4 years 11 months 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 3049 times:
I was gunna guess/suggest MCO, but I don't know the details at every airport. I've just never had any major problems myself at MCO, and I do know it's not too often that there are runway changes, gate problems, or ground movement problems in general. While it's not the perfect layout of an airport, I think it was pretty well designed.
HeyWhaTheHay From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (4 years 11 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 3046 times:
Quoting LAXintl (Reply 7): Why guess -- the DOT published the hard data.
Best Departure Ontime performance amongst large US Airports were;
January 1 - December 31, 2007 %
1 Salt Lake City, UT (SLC) 83.91
2 Portland, OR (PDX) 83.56
3 San Diego, CA (SAN) 82.52
4 Tampa, FL (TPA) 81.15
5 Los Angeles, CA (LAX) 80.20
6 Oakland, CA (OAK) 79.73
7 Houston, TX (IAH) 79.73
8 Orlando, FL (MCO) 79.26
9 Fort Lauderdale, FL (FLL) 78.47
10 St. Louis, MO (STL) 77.84
One thing that stands out.....
If you combine the top 3 airports 2007 passenger totals, they are still 6 million passengers shy of LAX.
HeyWhaTheHay From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (4 years 11 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 3044 times:
Quoting Pilotboi (Reply 8): I was gunna guess/suggest MCO, but I don't know the details at every airport. I've just never had any major problems myself at MCO, and I do know it's not too often that there are runway changes, gate problems, or ground movement problems in general. While it's not the perfect layout of an airport, I think it was pretty well designed
Pilotboi,
It looks like those number provided by LAXIntl prove your guess about MCO to be correct.!
I would like to add, that the Google Earth satelite view of MCO is BY FAR, the coolest airport layout. Not sure how practical it is ( I've never flown there) but it sure looks cool from a couple hundred miles up!
UN_B732 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 4286 posts, RR: 5 Reply 11, posted (4 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 2934 times:
I'm surprised CLE isn't in the top 10. Other than winter, it seems like a really smooth hub.
Iahflyr From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 4737 posts, RR: 25 Reply 12, posted (4 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 2912 times:
LAXintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22219 posts, RR: 51 Reply 13, posted (4 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 2909 times:
Ontime arrivals dont mean much if you are looking for actual airport performance as arrivals are at the mercy of enroute delays or delays based on where the flight originates.
For instance if an airport sees a large volume of flights from place such as JFK, ORD, EWR, LGA, ATL etc which have poor ontime departure rates, the arrival airport will suffer statistically as a good portion of those flights would be arriving late for no fault of the arrival airport.
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Iahflyr From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 4737 posts, RR: 25 Reply 14, posted (4 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 2903 times:
Quoting LAXintl (Reply 13): Ontime arrivals dont mean much if you are looking for actual airport performance as arrivals are at the mercy of enroute delays or delays based on where the flight originates.
I completely agree with you however, it gives the tue airport performance as the OP wanted in the thread!
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