| Year | All airports | Large to very large airports1 | Medium to small airports2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxi-in | Taxi-out | Taxi-in | Taxi-out | Taxi-in | Taxi-out | |
| 2015 | 5.9 | 12.5 | 6.8 | 14.2 | 5.1 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 6.0 | 12.8 | 6.8 | 14.6 | 5.2 | 11.3 |
| 2017 | 6.1 | 12.9 | 6.8 | 14.4 | 5.5 | 11.8 |
| 2018 | 6.2 | 13.8 | 6.8 | 14.9 | 5.6 | 12.1 |
| 2019 | 6.2 | 13.4 | 7.1 | 15.2 | 5.4 | 11.7 |
| 2020 | 5.7 | 11.4 | 6.8 | 13.2 | 4.5 | 9.6 |
| 2021 | 5.7 | 11.7 | 6.8 | 13.3 | 4.7 | 10.1 |
| 2022 | 6.0 | 12.3 | 7.2 | 14.1 | 4.8 | 10.5 |
| Source: EUROCONTROL Central Office for Delay Analysis (CODA) | ||||||
| 1 Large to very large airports: >150,000 movements | ||||||
| 2 Medium to small airports: 149,999 to 15,000 movements | ||||||
38 Taxiing time
38.1 EUROCONTROL recommended value
Table 38.1 shows the mean duration, in minutes, of taxi times at airports, based on flights in ECAC area.
Data in Table 38.1 is based on actual data from CODA. The taxi-out time is defined as the time spent by a flight between its actual off-block time (AOBT) and actual take-off time (ATOT). The taxi-in time is defined as the time spent between its actual landing time (ALDT) and actual in-block time (AIBT). The taxi-in and taxi-out durations are calculated on the basis of data sent by airlines to CODA.
Table 38.2 shows the average additional taxi out time per departure in top 30 airports in terms of movements, excluding Turkish airports.[1]
| Year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minutes | 3.7 | 3.91 | 3.85 | 4.21 | 4.22 | 2.16 | 2.1 |
| Source: EUROCONTROL (2022) Performance Review Report (PRR 2021) | |||||||
Values in Table 38.2 are based on actual data from airports. The additional taxi-out time is a proxy for the average departure runway queuing time on the outbound traffic flow during congestion periods at airports. It is the difference between the actual taxi-out time of a flight and a statistically determined unimpeded taxi-out time1 based on taxi-out times in periods of low traffic demand. There is one unimpeded time per stand runway combination at each airport.
38.2 Other possible sources
EUROCONTROL CODA Taxi times - Summer and Winter reports [2] show, by airport, seasonal taxi time statistics for the IATA winter season and the IATA summer season:
Taxi-in times
Taxi-out times
Taxi-out times by wake turbulence category
These taxi times are calculated using the airline reported actual off-block time, actual take-off time, actual landing time and actual in-block time, providing the aviation community with seasonal benchmark values.
Furthermore for additional granularity, taxi-out times by wake turbulence category are also offered for a number of airports.
38.4 References
[1]
EUROCONTROL, “Performance Review Report (PRR) 2021,” 2022 [Online]. Available: https://www.eurocontrol.int/publication/performance-review-report-prr-2021. [Accessed: Sep. 03, 2023]
[2]
EUROCONTROL CODA, “Taxi times - Summer and Winter reports” [Online]. Available: https://www.eurocontrol.int/search?keywords=Taxi+times&sort_by=search_api_relevance
The unimpeded taxi-out time is the taxi-out time in non-congested conditions at airports↩︎