At which airport are airplanes most likely to fly holding before landing? In our data, London Heathrow and London City are clear "winners" in this regard. But the data available to us is rather limited, see our About page. The following table shows some of the data we extracted. For the major airports covered in our dataset, we give:
Airport | Landings seen | % landings with holding | avg. seconds in holding |
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Frankfurt Main | 18423 | 0.6 | 2.9 |
Madrid Barajas | 12122 | 4.0 | 18.4 |
London Heathrow | 12034 | 29.0 | 162.9 |
Amsterdam Schiphol | 11432 | 1.3 | 5.8 |
London Gatwick | 10760 | 2.8 | 12.2 |
Zurich | 9744 | 11.2 | 58.7 |
Paris Charles De Gaulle | 4960 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Nuernberg Nurnberg | 4913 | 0.1 | 0.5 |
Hierro | 4858 | 2.3 | 12.2 |
London Stansted | 4401 | 1.4 | 4.2 |
Liege | 4382 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
Charleroi Brussels South | 4353 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Dortmund | 4064 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
London City | 4051 | 30.0 | 165.4 |
Nice Cote D\\'Azur | 3980 | 0.5 | 2.1 |
London Luton | 3760 | 4.3 | 20.8 |
Nottingham East Midlands | 3680 | 0.4 | 1.3 |
Cologne Koln Bonn | 2990 | 0.1 | 0.5 |
Birmingham | 2948 | 3.9 | 8.5 |
Geneva Geneve Cointrin | 2841 | 0.8 | 3.7 |
Innsbruck | 2815 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Manchester | 2735 | 0.4 | 1.3 |
Rome Fiumicino | 2570 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Milano Malpensa | 2452 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
Duesseldorf Dusseldorf | 2444 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Stuttgart | 2352 | 0.3 | 1.4 |
Paderborn Lippstadt | 2241 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg | 2218 | 0.7 | 3.6 |
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos Intl | 2130 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
Hannover | 1908 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Brussels Natl | 1810 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Bergamo Orio Al Serio | 1792 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Leeds Bradford | 1712 | 0.4 | 1.8 |
Erfurt | 1600 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Lille Lesquin | 1493 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Memmingen Allgau | 1492 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Maastricht | 1490 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Bristol | 1401 | 0.9 | 3.5 |
Luxemburg Luxembourg | 1364 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Liverpool | 1339 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Torino | 1282 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Southend | 1119 | 0.4 | 2.2 |
Venice Venezia Tessera | 1105 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Pisa | 1102 | 0.1 | 0.7 |
Olbia Costa Smeralda | 1078 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Villafranca | 953 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Zagreb | 934 | 0.9 | 3.0 |
Salzburg | 915 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Eindhoven | 905 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Frankfurt Hahn | 879 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
Rotterdam | 844 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
Florence Firenze | 780 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Paris Orly | 760 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Ajaccio Campo Dell Oro | 744 | 1.9 | 8.8 |
Milan Linate | 723 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Kalamata | 699 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Menorca | 630 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Cardiff | 629 | 0.3 | 3.5 |
Alghero | 628 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Weeze Niederrhein | 616 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Hyeres Le Palyvestre | 594 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
Zadar | 594 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Graz | 582 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Norwich | 561 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Bastia Poretta | 526 | 0.6 | 2.4 |
Humberside | 524 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Doncaster, Sheffield Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport | 518 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Linz | 485 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Beauvais Tille | 482 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Bremen Neuenland | 468 | 0.2 | 1.5 |
Ljubljana | 467 | 0.4 | 1.0 |
Pula | 439 | 0.2 | 3.5 |
Perugia | 430 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Baden Airpark | 421 | 0.2 | 1.6 |
Strasbourg Entzheim | 411 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
Exeter | 411 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Munster Osnabruck | 404 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Klagenfurt Woerthersee International Airport | 373 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Skiathos Alexandros Papadiamantis | 372 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Bern Belp | 310 | 17.7 | 32.3 |
Cuneo Levaldigi | 303 | 0.0 | 0.0 |