RITA | BTS | Transtats - Domestic Tarmac Times by Year, Partial Year or Month

Data available through March 2012. Please limit search using dropdowns to a single calendar year. Data begins with January 1995. See New Tarmac Time Data Q&A. for explanation of reporting changes in October 2008 and August 2011.
Note: For detailed monthly summary for a single year, click on the link for the year. View tarmac times by Airport or Airline

Year	Tarmac Times		Stage of Operation					Number of Regularly Scheduled Flights
Year	Total	Percent of Regularly Scheduled Flights	Prior To Cancellation	Multiple Gate Departure	Taxi-Out	Taxi-In	At Diversion Airport	Number of Regularly Scheduled Flights
1995	53	0.00	0	0	52	1	0	1,344,748
1996	136	0.01	0	0	114	22	0	1,317,058
1997	242	0.02	0	0	238	4	0	1,335,765
1998	58	0.00	0	0	46	12	0	1,324,536
1999	257	0.02	0	0	216	41	0	1,337,708
2000	124	0.01	0	0	124	0	0	1,397,920
2001	82	0.01	0	0	81	1	0	1,538,883
2002	207	0.02	0	0	176	31	0	1,283,767
2003	293	0.02	0	0	212	81	0	1,611,657
2004	1,077	0.06	0	0	155	922	0	1,739,275
2005	2,060	0.12	0	0	216	1,844	0	1,757,796
2006	948	0.06	0	0	123	825	0	1,717,751
2007	319	0.02	0	0	296	23	0	1,826,372
2008	242	0.01	0	0	238	4	0	1,791,091
2009	210	0.01	18	22	163	0	7	1,578,171
2010	105	0.01	15	6	74	4	6	1,554,341
2011	1	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	1,476,603
2012	3	0.00	0	0	0	3	0	1,472,587

Note: Tarmac times for all flights by airlines reporting on-time data are available beginning with October 2008 data. From January 1995 through September 2008, airlines reporting on-time data reported only taxi-out and taxi-in times. Airlines currently reporting on-time data.

Note: Numbers found here may differ from those previously available on the BTS website and on the Air Travel Consumer Report. Beginning with the release of May 2010 data, lengthy tarmac times are measured as more than 3 hours (181 minutes plus). Previous releases used the measurement of 3 hours or more (180 minutes plus). 2-hour and 1-hour tarmac times have been changed to conform. Data from previous months on this application have been revised but may differ from the previously-released Air Travel Consumer Report Tables 11 and 12, which were not revised. Air Travel Consumer Report Tables 11 and 12, beginning with the release of May 2010 data in the July report, will reflect the change in measurement.

Explanation of Stage of Operation
Prior to Cancellation: Flight left the gate but was cancelled at the origin airport
Multiple Gate Departure: Flight left the gate, then returned and then left again to resume normal operation. Tarmac time is the time before the return to the gate.
Taxi-out: The time between gate departure and wheels-off
Taxi-in: The time between wheels-on and gate arrival
At Diversion Airport: The tarmac time at the alternate airport

The number of reporting carriers has varied as follows:
1995: 10
1996: 10
1997: 10
1998: 10
1999: 10
2000: 10 (11 starting in November when Aloha Airlines started reporting for the first time)
2001: 12 (11 starting in November when Aloha Airlines ceased reporting for the first time)
2002: 10
2003: 17 (18 starting in November when Hawaiian Airlines started reporting)
2004: 19
2005: 20 (19 through April after which Frontier Airlines started reporting)
2006: 20 (19 through March after which Aloha Airlines started reporting for the second time)
2007: 20
2008: 19 (20 through February after which Aloha Airlines ceased reporting)
2009: 19
2010: 18
2011: 16
2012: 15

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