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Old Oct 10, 2015 | 5:12 am
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johan rebel
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Originally Posted by ajs123
I took a flight from AMS to FRA earlier this week and before the descent the co-pilot announced in English that given the landing runway we will have an unusual 15 minute taxi time to our parking stand.
Unusual indeed. This morning touchdown to gate took five minutes, if that. Total time spent taxiing at both ends was only five minutes shorter that our flying time. Had we landed on a distant runway, we would have spent more time driving around on the ground than in the air.

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