London City Airport, Dallas Love Field and New York LaGuardia were said to be the most efficient airports for business traveler arrivals, according to new data from Blacklane, the global chauffeur service.

The inaugural Blacklane Business Travel Efficiency Index conducted a global study of chauffeur-tracked arrivals, pick-up and drop-off data across 27 top airports for business travel in 12 cities and nine countries, collected between January 2025 and September 2026. Designed to help business travelers and travel managers alike plan productive business trips, the index found:

• Seat-to-seat: London City gets travelers from their plane seat to their Blacklane seat fastest, in an average of 23.6 minutes, while Tokyo Narita takes the longest at 48.4 minutes. 
• Landing-to-lobby: From the moment of landing to the final arrival in the city, or the “landing-to-lobby” metric, Singapore Changi is fastest for international arrivals at 67.8 minutes, according to the Blacklane data, and has even improved by 7.5 minutes from 2025.  Tokyo Narita records the longest average trip at 128.2 minutes. Dallas Fort Worth leads for domestic arrivals, with a 63.7-minute average landing-to-lobby drop-off.
• NYC airport showdown: For travelers and travel managers choosing which airport to arrive in for New York City,  LaGuardia’s landing-to-lobby journey can be up to 42 minutes quicker than John F. Kennedy airport.
• The passport premium: International arrivals add about 24 minutes at London Heathrow and Chicago O’Hare, and about 21 minutes at John F. Kennedy, versus domestic arrivals. 

“When it comes to business travel, every minute counts,” said Kasra Moshkani, CEO Americas at Blacklane. “Choosing which airport to fly into, or when to travel may seem like minor decisions,” he said, “but our Business Travel Efficiency Index shows these choices have a meaningful impact on the journey as a whole and potentially give time back making travel smoother and itineraries more productive.”

Travel timing, especially around days of the week, matters too, according to the report. Journeys into the city tend to be smoother on Mondays and around midday, while Friday travel and the 9 a.m. rush are slower. At Paris Charles de Gaulle, the drive averaged 53 minutes on a Monday afternoon, compared with 84 minutes on a Tuesday morning.

Distance alone doesn’t tell business travelers how much time to allow, according to Moshkani. He said John F. Kennedy and Charles de Gaulle in Paris are roughly 20 miles from their city centers, yet the travel from each can take about as long as the nearly 38-mile trip from London Gatwick.