USA Flight Punctuality — Best & Worst Destinations From the UK

33 USA destinations ranked across 487,837 scheduled UK flights.

Most punctual USA destination

Raleigh

83.5% on time · 16.7 min avg delay

Most delayed USA destination

Baltimore

57.5% on time · 23.8 min avg delay

Full USA ranking

#	Destination	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Flights
1	Raleigh	83.5%	16.7 min	1.4%	3,528
2	Minneapolis-st Paul	81.4%	13.2 min	1.0%	3,729
3	Detroit	79.8%	12.9 min	1.4%	4,984
4	Boston	78.7%	13.4 min	1.7%	31,524
5	New York Jf Kennedy	76.9%	14.5 min	1.8%	97,351
6	Philadelphia Intl	75.7%	18 min	1.8%	11,833
7	Salt Lake City	75.3%	15.9 min	3.0%	2,712
8	Charlotte	74.4%	24.2 min	2.0%	9,704
9	San Francisco	74.2%	15.8 min	1.2%	23,340
10	Seattle Tacoma	73.9%	16.8 min	1.0%	13,457
11	Los Angeles Intl	73.4%	17.9 min	1.3%	35,712
12	Dallas-fort Worth	72.5%	19.8 min	1.7%	17,918
13	Atlanta	72.4%	15.8 min	1.2%	20,701
14	New York Newark	72.4%	20.2 min	2.3%	37,325
15	Chicago O'hare	71.9%	21.9 min	2.1%	31,500
16	Washington Dulles	71.3%	18.3 min	1.9%	22,674
17	San Diego	71.3%	17.8 min	0.4%	4,583
18	Tampa	70.5%	17.6 min	2.0%	6,107
19	Denver Intl	69.7%	18.9 min	0.9%	9,306
20	Miami Intl	69.4%	21 min	1.4%	21,380
21	Houston	68.7%	18.7 min	1.5%	15,686
22	Las Vegas	68.4%	20.6 min	0.8%	10,186
23	Pittsburgh	65.4%	21.1 min	1.5%	2,363
24	Orlando	65.3%	21.9 min	1.5%	23,611
25	San Jose	64.6%	24.4 min	2.6%	1,468
26	Portland Oregon	63.4%	23.1 min	0.7%	2,521
27	Austin Bergstrom	63.1%	21.1 min	2.3%	5,022
28	Nashville Metropolitan	63%	20.4 min	1.6%	3,397
29	New Orleans	63%	20.7 min	1.8%	2,232
30	Phoenix	62.8%	27.5 min	1.1%	6,774
31	Cincinnati	61.1%	21.2 min	2.5%	1,393
32	Fort Lauderdale	59.3%	21.7 min	0.8%	511
33	Baltimore	57.5%	23.8 min	3.4%	3,305

Methodology

A flight counts as "on time" if it arrives within 15 minutes of its scheduled time (UK CAA definition). Each destination's score is a flight-weighted average across every UK origin, airline and month in the dataset.

USA destinations with fewer than 500 scheduled flights from the UK are excluded so seasonal or low-traffic airports don't distort the ranking.

Source: UK CAA Punctuality Statistics. Data refreshed monthly.

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