Federal Aviation Administration

NextGen

City Pairs — Atlanta

When a traveler starts to plan a trip or when an airline operator starts to plan air service, they will look at the points of origin and destination for flights. These points of origin and destination are thought of in terms of pairs of cities or pairs of metroplexes. In measuring city-pair performance, the NPS website looks at flights that either originate or conclude at a specific metroplex, such as the New York/Philadelphia metroplex to Southern California. For each city pair, an origin airport (for example, Newark Liberty International, EWR) and a destination airport (for example, Los Angeles International, LAX) are listed. The city pairs are unidirectional (only measuring EWR to LAX in the example above) and the NPS website reports them as recommended by the NextGen Advisory Committee.

All results are reported by Fiscal Year (FY), October 1 — September 30.

Flights can depart outside of the reportable hours, but must arrive during the reportable hours at the destination airport. For a list of the reportable hours for each airport, please see the Reference Guide.

Average Gate to Gate Time (FY)
Minutes per Flight

During reportable hours at the destination airport, the yearly average of the difference between the Actual Gate-In Time at the destination airport and the Actual Gate-Out time at the origin airport. Flights may depart outside reportable hours, but must arrive during them. The reportable hours vary by airport.

Origin Destination 2009 2010 2011 2012
ATL EWR 141.8 138.5 138.6 135.3
ATL FLL 111.2 111.7 110.6 109.0
ATL LGA 139.2 136.5 136.6 132.5
ATL MIA 113.8 116.0 114.5 114.1

 

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