Originally Posted by
FWAAA
Most of my JFK arrivals are on LAX-JFK transcons (10 or 30), and most of the time, unless there are strong winds, we land on 31R and we're at the terminal in just a couple of minutes. Most of my JFK ground tours occur on departure (not arrival), where taxi out times can sometimes exceed 90 minutes.
Both AA 10 and AA 30 are early morning arrivals. By contrast, most of my JFK arrivals tend to be in the afternoon/evening, and for those we tend to do a lot of awkward circling to position to rwy 22L. I wonder if the winds from the ocean pick up in the afternoon/evening.
(sometimes, in fact, we have to fly quite far out of the way....coming up from the Caribbean, flying all the way north to Connecticut, and then back around and across the Sound to line up with 22L)