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Originally Posted by Mike Harte
Schiphol, one of the growing number of airports where, because a runway is so far from the terminal building, it can almost take as long to taxi to the take-off point as the length of the actual flight. Their newest runway, not used that frequently, can take nearly an hour to reach from some departure gates if you include the time taken to push back the aircraft and start the engines.
The joys of travelling!
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I remember taxiing what seemed like forever at Frankfurt one day when an American asked very loudly (of course!) "Hell, are we going the whole way by road?