Table 4-7: Major Airports by On-time Departure Performance
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 4-7: Major Airports by On-time Departure Performance
(Percent on-time)
| Airport | 2002 | 2003 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | On-time percentage | Rank | On-time percentage | |
| Houston, TX (George Bush Intercontinental) | 2 | 89.5 | 1 | 90.5 |
| Portland, OR (Portland International) | 13 | 86.1 | 2 | 89.6 |
| Salt Lake City, UT (Salt Lake City International) | 5 | 87.8 | 3 | 89.6 |
| Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles International) | 12 | 86.1 | 4 | 89.3 |
| San Francisco, CA (San Francisco International) | 6 | 87.6 | 5 | 88.9 |
| St. Louis, MO (Lambert-St Louis International) | 10 | 86.9 | 6 | 88.7 |
| Denver, CO (Denver International) | 4 | 88.2 | 7 | 88.3 |
| Tampa, FL (Tampa International) | 14 | 85.9 | 8 | 88.2 |
| San Diego, CA (San Diego International) | 21 | 85.1 | 9 | 88.1 |
| Washington, DC (Ronald Reagan Washington National) | 1 | 90.1 | 10 | 87.8 |
| Orlando, FL (Orlando International) | 8 | 87.4 | 11 | 87.5 |
| Minneapolis, MN (Minneapolis-St. Paul International/Wold-Chamberlain) | 19 | 85.2 | 12 | 87.3 |
| Pittsburgh, PA (Pittsburgh International) | 7 | 87.5 | 13 | 86.3 |
| Seattle, WA (Seattle-Tacoma International) | 23 | 83.6 | 14 | 86.2 |
| Fort Lauderdale, FL (Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International) | 18 | 85.3 | 15 | 85.8 |
| Detroit, MI (Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County) | 30 | 80.2 | 16 | 85.6 |
| Las Vegas, NV (Las Vegas McCarran International) | 28 | 81.9 | 17 | 85.0 |
| Cincinnati, OH (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International) | 9 | 87.3 | 18 | 84.9 |
| Phoenix, AZ (Phoenix Sky Harbor International) | 27 | 82.3 | 19 | 84.3 |
| Fort Worth, TX (Dallas/Fort Worth International) | 16 | 85.6 | 20 | 84.2 |
| New York, NY (LaGuardia International) | 11 | 86.8 | 21 | 84.2 |
| Charlotte, NC (Charlotte/Douglas International) | 20 | 85.1 | 22 | 84.2 |
| Miami, FL (Miami International) | 15 | 85.7 | 23 | 83.5 |
| Baltimore, MD (Baltimore/Washington International) | 29 | 80.4 | 24 | 83.3 |
| Boston, MA (General Edward Lawrence Logan International) | 17 | 85.5 | 25 | 83.3 |
| New York, NY (John F. Kennedy International) | 22 | 83.7 | 26 | 83.2 |
| Newark, NJ (Newark Liberty International) | 3 | 88.2 | 27 | 82.9 |
| Atlanta, GA (Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International) | 24 | 83.3 | 28 | 81.5 |
| Chicago, IL (Chicago Midway International) | 31 | 75.4 | 29 | 81.3 |
| Philadelphia, PA (Philadelphia International) | 26 | 82.3 | 30 | 79.3 |
| Chicago, IL (Chicago O'Hare International) | 25 | 82.8 | 31 | 79.2 |
NOTE: Government regulations currently require airlines to report on-time performance at the 31 airports that account for at least 1 percent of the nation's total domestic scheduled-service passenger enplanements.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Office of Airline Information, Airline On-time Tables, Washington, DC: 2004, available at http://www.bts.gov/programs/airline_information/airline_ontime_tables/ as of Nov. 11, 2004.