Tuesday, March 17, 2015

It's Official: Newark Airport Is a Headache

If you've traveled at all from here in New Jersey, you've probably flown in and out of Newark Liberty Airport. And if you thought that airport was a pain in the you-know-what, you're right. According to a new study from the website FiveThirtyEight.com, among the 30 largest airports in the U.S., Newark has the worst time lags.

Newark adds an average of an extra 25 minutes to both departure and arrival target times, making it the worst in the industry. LaGuardia is just as bad, adding an average of 27 minutes to departure times and 23 minutes to arrival times. In third place? You guessed it: JFK adds 24 minutes to departures and 19 minutes to arrivals.

You're a little better off going down to Philadelphia, which adds 18 minutes to departures and 15 minutes to arrivals. The most efficient major airport, according to this study, is in Honolulu, where they're actually ahead of schedule on both ends, with departures coming in 7 minutes ahead of time and arrivals at 6 minutes.

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