Originally Posted by
Uplinker
London Heathrow is a very large and very busy airport, and the runways are each over 2 miles long. So if you have to taxi from one end of the airport to the other before lining up, owing to the wind direction, it might take a while.......
and on Flight radar you can see them all in a line, and others waiting to cross or join before you even push back. Not as bad as JFK but .............