Waits At Philly International Airport Among Nation's Shortest: Study

PHILADELPHIA — Very few moments in life can induce the level of anxiety as nearly missing a flight can.

But luckily for travelers out of the City of Brotherly Love, the Philadelphia International Airport has one of the shortest wait times of all airports in the nation.

At least according to new findings from travel website Planetware.

Planetware examined collected data for more than 150 airports across the country and calculated the average wait times by gathering data each day for one week during one of the busiest times at airports, 11 a.m. to noon.

Those 150 airports were whittled down to the 31 airports with the most passengers on average each year.

Using those wait times, Planetware ranked airports from the longest to shortest average wait times.

So where does Philly stand?

According to Planetware, travelers have the fourth-shortest waits of all United States airports when traveling at the Philadelphia International Airport.

Data from Planetware shows the average wait time at PHL is 9.2 minutes.

Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall in Maryland came in first for the lowest wait time on average at about 5 minutes.

Detroit Metro Wayne County Airport and Phoenix Sky Harbor International came in second and third with seven- and eight-minute wait times on average, respectively.

The longest average wait, according to Planetware, is at Daniel K. Inouye International in Honolulu, Hawaii, with about a 21-minute wait on average.

Chicago O'Hare International in Illinois has the second-longest average wait at about 20 minutes wait.

And about 45 minutes south at Chicago Midway International, you'll find the third-longest average wait time in the nation, with an average of 18 minutes.

See the full rankings from Planetware online here.