Can airplanes request to skip takeoff queues?

[coke]

Ahh I see, thanks for the responses.

Jerry

[Leftseat86]

There's often "traffic metering" that takes place during busy times.

If you have a bunch of planes 'going one direction', but only a few going another direction, they often hold takeoffs for the busy route while letting folks go on the not-busy route.

Some airports have 'taxi plans' and hold areas to accommodate that- DFW has some good examples.

Along with this, most all IFR flights will have a slotted departure time at major airports, if they miss their original departure time they need to wait for the next available slot. If the CRJ was running late and able to take the intersection for departure ATC probably let them do it. It's not really "skipping" the queue since their departure slot was likely before some of the aircraft in front of them.

[3WE]

There's often "traffic metering" that takes place during busy times.

If you have a bunch of planes 'going one direction', but only a few going another direction, they often hold takeoffs for the busy route while letting folks go on the not-busy route.

Some airports have 'taxi plans' and hold areas to accommodate that- DFW has some good examples.

[coke]

Hello,

I saw this one time in a video of Charlotte-Douglas Airport, there was a queue of aircraft for takeoff and then after the 5th plane or so there was a CRJ-700 that apparently was very delayed and ATC allowed it to take a closer taxiway and let it cut in front of the 4 planes ahead of it in the queue.

I also read something about this on a different forum once, but can't seem to find it. What is the formal term to describe when planes cut in front of others and how often does it occur?

Thanks,

Jerry