Airports are usually judged on on-time performance — how quickly planes push back from the gate and depart. 

But what about the airports with the longest wait times before you ever get to a departure gate or after you land — for security checks and passport clearance? The airport with the longest wait time? That would be New York’s JFK. 

The average TSA wait time is 15 minutes, and the average passport control wait time is more than 24 minutes. 

The combined wait time is nearly 40 minutes.

Other bad wait time airports? Orlando, O’Hare, Los Angeles, Austin, and Miami. 

And the airports with the shortest wait times? 

Try Palm Beach, Florida, with an average combined wait time of under 8 minutes, followed by John Wayne in California, Phoenix, and San Antonio.