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4-5 U.S. Major Airport Performance Rankings: 2012 (Table)

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

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by percent of on-time arrivals

Rank Airport Percent on-time
1 Salt Lake City, UT 88.6
2 Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN 87.2
3 Phoenix, AZ 86.5
4 Charlotte, NC 86.2
5 Seattle-Tacoma, WA 85.0
  All major U.S. airports 81.9
6 Chicago O'Hare, IL 79.6
7 Washington Dulles, VA 79.2
8 New York LaGuardia, NY 76.8
9 San Francisco, CA 70.0
10 Newark, NJ 69.4

Note: Flights arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of scheduled arrival time are on-time.

Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Office of Airline Information, available at www.bts.gov as of October 2013.