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FIGURE 5-4 National Flight Delays by Cause, Percent of Total Delay Minutes: 2004-2013

Friday, April 10, 2015

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Percent of total delay

  Air carrier delay Aircraft arriving late Security delay National aviation system delay Extreme weather
2004 25.8 33.6 0.3 33.5 6.9
2005 28.0 34.2 0.2 31.4 6.2
2006 27.8 37.0 0.3 29.4 5.6
2007 28.6 37.6 0.2 27.9 5.7
2008 27.8 37.0 0.3 29.4 5.6
2009 28.0 36.2 0.1 30.6 5.0
2010 30.4 39.4 0.2 25.7 4.4
2011 30.1 40.8 0.1 24.8 4.2
2012 31.9 41.4 0.1 22.5 4.0
2013 29.4 42.1 0.1 24.2 4.1

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transtats Database, Airline On-Time Performance, available at http://www.transtats.bts.gov/ as of February 2014.