Across the U.S., the airport rush hour is from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Hereas compiled from figures supplied by the FAA, the airlines and air-traffic controllersare the average number of daily takeoffs and landings at the 20 busiest U.S. commercial airports, and the average rush-hour time a plane wastes circling the field or waiting to take off.
Airport
Daily Minutes Minutes Flights Delay In Delay Out
Chicago's O'Hare . . . .1,800. . . .10 16
New York's Kennedy. .1,537 20 40
Miami 1,209 7 12
Los Angeles 1,199. . . .15 25
Denver 1,195 15 18
Dallas 945. ... 9 11
St. Louis 937 4 5
Atlanta 905. .....
