Airport quality: LSDE 2016 project

Holding by airport

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:

  1. the number of landings we have seen at this airport from 02. to 30. September 2015,
  2. the percentage of flights that flew holding before landing there, and
  3. the average time a plane spent in holding when flying to that airport.

Airport Landings seen % landings with holding avg. seconds in holding
Frankfurt Main184230.62.9
Madrid Barajas121224.018.4
London Heathrow1203429.0162.9
Amsterdam Schiphol114321.35.8
London Gatwick107602.812.2
Zurich974411.258.7
Paris Charles De Gaulle49600.00.0
Nuernberg Nurnberg49130.10.5
Hierro48582.312.2
London Stansted44011.44.2
Liege43820.00.1
Charleroi Brussels South43530.00.0
Dortmund40640.00.0
London City405130.0165.4
Nice Cote D\\'Azur39800.52.1
London Luton37604.320.8
Nottingham East Midlands36800.41.3
Cologne Koln Bonn29900.10.5
Birmingham29483.98.5
Geneva Geneve Cointrin28410.83.7
Innsbruck28150.00.0
Manchester27350.41.3
Rome Fiumicino25700.10.1
Milano Malpensa24520.10.2
Duesseldorf Dusseldorf24440.00.0
Stuttgart23520.31.4
Paderborn Lippstadt22410.00.0
EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg22180.73.6
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos Intl21300.00.4
Hannover19080.00.0
Brussels Natl18100.00.0
Bergamo Orio Al Serio17920.10.0
Leeds Bradford17120.41.8
Erfurt16000.00.0
Lille Lesquin14930.00.0
Memmingen Allgau14920.00.0
Maastricht14900.00.0
Bristol14010.93.5
Luxemburg Luxembourg13640.00.0
Liverpool13390.00.0
Torino12820.00.0
Southend11190.42.2
Venice Venezia Tessera11050.10.0
Pisa11020.10.7
Olbia Costa Smeralda10780.00.0
Villafranca9530.00.0
Zagreb9340.93.0
Salzburg9150.00.0
Eindhoven9050.00.0
Frankfurt Hahn8790.20.3
Rotterdam8440.21.0
Florence Firenze7800.00.0
Paris Orly7600.00.0
Ajaccio Campo Dell Oro7441.98.8
Milan Linate7230.00.0
Kalamata6990.00.0
Menorca6300.00.0
Cardiff6290.33.5
Alghero6280.00.0
Weeze Niederrhein6160.00.0
Hyeres Le Palyvestre5940.20.3
Zadar5940.00.0
Graz5820.00.0
Norwich5610.00.0
Bastia Poretta5260.62.4
Humberside5240.00.0
Doncaster, Sheffield Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport5180.00.0
Linz4850.00.0
Beauvais Tille4820.00.0
Bremen Neuenland4680.21.5
Ljubljana4670.41.0
Pula4390.23.5
Perugia4300.00.0
Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Baden Airpark4210.21.6
Strasbourg Entzheim4110.21.0
Exeter4110.00.0
Munster Osnabruck4040.00.0
Klagenfurt Woerthersee International Airport3730.00.0
Skiathos Alexandros Papadiamantis3720.00.0
Bern Belp31017.732.3
Cuneo Levaldigi3030.00.0

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