Tarmac Time: Time away from airport gate in minutes
Airlines
ranked by number of flights departing gate before cancellation
| Total Flights |
Total Cancelled Flights | Flights Departing Gate before Cancellation | Total Tarmac Time for Flights Departing Gate before Cancellation (Minutes) | Average Tarmac Time for Flights Departing Gate before Cancellation (Minutes) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Eagle | 38,097 | 827 | 48 | 3,494 | 73 |
| US Airways | 35,730 | 376 | 44 | 4,307 | 98 |
| Comair | 14,373 | 783 | 42 | 3,037 | 72 |
| Pinnacle | 23,889 | 469 | 40 | 1,816 | 45 |
| American | 47,674 | 631 | 34 | 3,145 | 93 |
| Atlantic Southeast | 29,197 | 587 | 33 | 1,293 | 39 |
| Mesa | 21,792 | 349 | 33 | 2,069 | 63 |
| SkyWest | 48,953 | 351 | 29 | 808 | 28 |
| United | 33,948 | 533 | 18 | 1,397 | 78 |
| Northwest | 29,328 | 150 | 17 | 1,052 | 62 |
| ExpressJet | 29,711 | 362 | 15 | 955 | 64 |
| Delta | 37,145 | 284 | 12 | 935 | 78 |
| JetBlue | 17,480 | 327 | 9 | 1,194 | 133 |
| Continental | 23,193 | 93 | 9 | 486 | 54 |
| AirTran | 23,195 | 142 | 5 | 391 | 78 |
| Alaska | 12,786 | 46 | 4 | 48 | 12 |
| Hawaiian | 6,645 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| Southwest | 99,070 | 466 | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Frontier | 7,928 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All Airlines | 580,134 | 6,838 | 394 | 26,445 | 67 |
Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics