Airports with long taxiway delays
| Airline passengers on 7,405 flights spent at least two hours -- and sometimes much longer -- on airfields waiting to take off in 2006. The following airports reported taxiway delays of at least three hours last year. |
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| Airport 3 hours plus Total flights |
| Atlanta 40 407,971 |
| Chicago O'Hare 211 373,736 |
| Dallas-Ft.Worth 44 301,163 |
| Los Angeles Intl. 1 233,788 |
| Denver 10 232,476 |
| Houston Bush 54 224,061 |
| Phoenix 1 215,086 |
| Las Vegas 3 184,733 |
| Newark, N.J. 157 158,291 |
| Salt Lake City 1 142,080 |
| San Francisco 1 131,844 |
| Boston 27 131,050 |
| Detroit 6 128,327 |
| New York LaGuardia 132 127,459 |
| Cincinnati 4 126,680 |
| Minneapolis-St. Paul 9 126,498 |
| Orlando, Fla. 3 118,910 |
| Charlotte, N.C. 14 117,455 |
| New York JFK 169 110,367 |
| Philadelphia 95 108,313 |
| Baltimore 12 107,584 |
| Seattle 2 107,541 |
| Chicago Midway 10 100,840 |
| Washington Dulles 26 96,010 |
| Washington Reagan 26 94,659 |
| Cleveland 7 86,421 |
| Tampa, Fla. 2 75,946 |
| Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 11 67,597 |
| Miami 20 66,153 |
| St. Louis 3 64,327 |
| San Jose, Calif. 1 61,161 |
| Nashville, Tenn. 3 60,554 |
| Raleigh-Durham, N.C. 4 58,017 |
| Kansas City, Mo. 5 55,918 |
| Sacramento, Calif. 2 53,835 |
| Santa Ana, Calif. 4 51,702 |
| Pittsburgh 5 47,455 |
| Memphis, Tenn. 5 47,350 |
| Austin, Texas 8 44,592 |
| San Antonio 7 42,856 |
| Indianapolis 6 37,615 |
| Albuquerque, N.M. 3 37,264 |
| Columbus, Ohio 3 35,912 |
| Hartford, Conn. 2 32,880 |
| Burbank, Calif. 1 32,102 |
| Jacksonville, Fla. 2 31,617 |
| New Orleans 3 29,899 |
| Palm Beach, Fla. 2 28,305 |
| Buffalo, N.Y. 2 27,440 |
| Providence, R.I. 1 26,578 |
| Ft. Myers, Fla. 2 26,431 |
| Milwaukee 2 23,374 |
| Omaha, Neb. 2 23,066 |
| Oklahoma City 4 22,003 |
| Tulsa, Okla. 3 21,698 |
| Manchester, N.H. 5 21,260 |
| Norfolk, Va. 3 20,162 |
| Richmond, Va. 6 19,177 |
| Louisville, Ky. 1 19,165 |
| Birmingham, Ala. 3 19,161 |
| Rochester, N.Y. 3 17,621 |
| Boise, Idaho 1 17,114 |
| Colorado Springs, Colo. 4 17,046 |
| Little Rock, Ark. 3 17,006 |
| Grand Rapids, Mich. 1 16,261 |
| Albany, N.Y. 0 14,676 |
| Greensboro, N.C. 3 14,063 |
| Des Moines, Iowa 2 13,429 |
| Savannah, Ga. 1 13,248 |
| Madison, Wis. 8 12,945 |
| Long Beach, Calif. 1 12,879 |
| Syracuse, N.Y. 1 12,356 |
| Charleston, S.C. 2 12,330 |
| Baton Rouge, La. 3 11,519 |
| Fayetteville, Ark. 3 11,429 |
| Columbia, S.C. 2 11,360 |
| Knoxville, Tenn. 1 9,954 |
| Lexington, Ky. 2 9,404 |
| Lubbock, Texas 1 9,327 |
| Springfield, Mo. 1 9,273 |
| Corpus Christi, Texas 4 9,215 |
| Cedar Rapids, Iowa 1 8,827 |
| Green Bay, Wis. 1 7,712 |
| Portland, Maine 1 7,551 |
| Sarasota, Fla. 1 7,493 |
| Shreveport, La. 5 7,197 |
| Myrtle Beach, S.C. 1 7,088 |
| Flint, Mich. 2 7,007 |
| White Plains, N.Y. 7 6,983 |
| Gulfport, Miss. 2 6,955 |
| Burlington, Vt. 2 6,869 |
| Valparaiso, Fla. 1 6,437 |
| Moline, Ill. 1 6,309 |
| Sioux Falls, S.D. 1 6,188 |
| Newport News, Va. 1 6,115 |
| Bakersfield, Calif. 1 5,732 |
| Lafayette, La. 4 5,385 |
| Fargo, N.D. 1 4,888 |
| Mission, Texas 1 4,845 |
| Kalamazoo, Mich. 1 4,815 |
| Chattanooga, Tenn. 1 4,704 |
| Peoria, Ill. 1 4,664 |
| Bloomington, Ill. 2 4,535 |
| Appleton, Wis. 0 4,348 |
| Bangor, Maine 1 4,303 |
| Traverse City, Mich. 2 3,796 |
| Daytona Beach, Fla. 1 3,557 |
| Montgomery, Ala. 1 3,278 |
| Tallahassee, Fla. 1 3,176 |
| Asheville, N.C. 1 3,081 |
| Eagle, Colo. 1 3,009 |
| Lincoln, Neb. 1 2,906 |
| Laredo, Texas 2 2,756 |
| Brownsville, Texas 1 2,314 |
| Monroe, La. 2 2,289 |
| Springfield, Ill. 2 1,750 |
| Dubuque, Iowa 1 1,410 |
| Lake Charles, La. 2 1,399 |
| State College, Pa. 1 1,007 |
| Tupelo, Miss. 1 749 |
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| Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics |
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