National delay causes (last 12 months)
- Air carrier33.1%
- Extreme weather5.9%
- National Aviation System21.3%
- Security0.2%
- Late-arriving aircraft39.5%
Airlines by on-time performance
- Hawaiian Airlines (reported through 2025)81.5% on-time · 11.7 min avg delay
- Delta Air Lines80.7% on-time · 14.6 min avg delay
- Envoy Air79.5% on-time · 14.2 min avg delay
- United Airlines78.7% on-time · 16.2 min avg delay
- SkyWest Airlines78.5% on-time · 19.7 min avg delay
- Alaska Airlines78% on-time · 12.5 min avg delay
- Republic Airlines77.7% on-time · 16.8 min avg delay
- Southwest Airlines76.9% on-time · 13.7 min avg delay
- American Airlines73.9% on-time · 22.8 min avg delay
- Allegiant Air73.9% on-time · 23.1 min avg delay
- PSA Airlines73.7% on-time · 25.3 min avg delay
- Spirit Airlines73.2% on-time · 20.8 min avg delay
- Frontier Airlines72.3% on-time · 24 min avg delay
- JetBlue Airways72.2% on-time · 21.7 min avg delay
Airports by on-time performance
- Salt Lake City (SLC)84.4% on-time · 11.1 min avg delay
- Honolulu (HNL)84.4% on-time · 10.4 min avg delay
- Portland (PDX)83.3% on-time · 11.5 min avg delay
- Washington (IAD)82.4% on-time · 15.9 min avg delay
- Sacramento (SMF)80.8% on-time · 12.1 min avg delay
- Minneapolis (MSP)80.5% on-time · 15.3 min avg delay
- Los Angeles (LAX)80.1% on-time · 14.9 min avg delay
- Newark (EWR)79% on-time · 17.6 min avg delay
- Raleigh-durham (RDU)79% on-time · 17.6 min avg delay
- Detroit (DTW)78.5% on-time · 18 min avg delay
- Seattle (SEA)78.4% on-time · 13.3 min avg delay
- San Francisco (SFO)78.3% on-time · 16.1 min avg delay
- Houston (IAH)78% on-time · 18.4 min avg delay
- New York (JFK)77.9% on-time · 18.3 min avg delay
- Atlanta (ATL)77.3% on-time · 15.8 min avg delay
- Phoenix (PHX)77.2% on-time · 15.4 min avg delay
- Tampa (TPA)77.1% on-time · 17.6 min avg delay
- Boston (BOS)76.3% on-time · 18.4 min avg delay
- Philadelphia (PHL)75.9% on-time · 20.7 min avg delay
- New York (LGA)75.6% on-time · 20.2 min avg delay
- St. Louis (STL)75.6% on-time · 17.4 min avg delay
- San Diego (SAN)75.6% on-time · 16 min avg delay
- Austin (AUS)75.4% on-time · 18.3 min avg delay
- Denver (DEN)75.3% on-time · 17.6 min avg delay
- Charlotte (CLT)75.3% on-time · 18.6 min avg delay
- Las Vegas (LAS)75.2% on-time · 15.9 min avg delay
- Houston (HOU)73.8% on-time · 14.8 min avg delay
- Orlando (MCO)73.5% on-time · 19.7 min avg delay
- Miami (MIA)73.5% on-time · 20.3 min avg delay
- Washington (DCA)73.3% on-time · 21.6 min avg delay
- Nashville (BNA)73.2% on-time · 17.8 min avg delay
- Baltimore (BWI)72.8% on-time · 17.6 min avg delay
- Chicago (MDW)72.7% on-time · 16.3 min avg delay
- Chicago (ORD)72.5% on-time · 22.9 min avg delay
- Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW)70.9% on-time · 21.8 min avg delay
- Fort Lauderdale (FLL)70.5% on-time · 22 min avg delay
- Dallas (DAL)69.9% on-time · 17.6 min avg delay
On-time = arrival within 15 minutes of schedule, per U.S. DOT definitions. Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (public domain). Delay-cause attribution is reported by carriers since June 2003.
Source: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, On-Time Performance · United States Government public domain.