USA Flight Punctuality — Best & Worst Destinations From the UK

33 USA destinations ranked across 452,141 scheduled UK flights.

Most punctual USA destination

Raleigh

84% on time · 16.7 min avg delay

Most delayed USA destination

Baltimore

56.5% on time · 24.4 min avg delay

Full USA ranking

#	Destination	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Flights
1	Raleigh	84%	16.7 min	1.0%	3,239
2	Minneapolis-st Paul	81.3%	13.6 min	1.0%	3,428
3	Detroit	79.4%	13.3 min	1.4%	4,682
4	Boston	78.4%	13.7 min	1.6%	29,267
5	New York Jf Kennedy	76.6%	14.6 min	1.6%	90,767
6	Philadelphia Intl	75.1%	18.7 min	1.7%	10,988
7	Salt Lake City	75.1%	16.1 min	2.9%	2,502
8	Charlotte	74.4%	24.3 min	1.8%	8,849
9	San Francisco	73.6%	16.2 min	1.3%	21,659
10	Seattle Tacoma	73%	17.4 min	1.0%	12,453
11	Los Angeles Intl	72.9%	18.3 min	1.2%	33,355
12	Dallas-fort Worth	72.4%	20 min	1.5%	16,512
13	New York Newark	71.8%	20.3 min	2.1%	34,428
14	Atlanta	71.4%	16.4 min	1.2%	18,873
15	Chicago O'hare	71.3%	22.3 min	2.1%	29,166
16	San Diego	70.8%	18.1 min	0.4%	4,209
17	Washington Dulles	70.6%	18.6 min	1.8%	20,966
18	Tampa	69.4%	18.5 min	1.8%	5,570
19	Miami Intl	68.8%	21.4 min	1.4%	19,700
20	Denver Intl	68.7%	19.5 min	0.9%	8,587
21	Houston	68.3%	19 min	1.5%	14,600
22	Las Vegas	67.3%	21.1 min	0.9%	9,375
23	Orlando	64.6%	22.3 min	1.5%	22,142
24	San Jose	64.6%	24.4 min	2.6%	1,468
25	Pittsburgh	64.2%	21.1 min	1.6%	2,144
26	Austin Bergstrom	62.4%	21.5 min	2.3%	4,633
27	Phoenix	62.2%	27.6 min	1.1%	6,349
28	Portland Oregon	61.9%	23.8 min	0.7%	2,309
29	Nashville Metropolitan	61.6%	21 min	1.6%	3,103
30	New Orleans	61.5%	21.2 min	1.8%	2,067
31	Cincinnati	59.4%	22.2 min	2.7%	1,196
32	Fort Lauderdale	59.3%	21.7 min	0.8%	511
33	Baltimore	56.5%	24.4 min	3.4%	3,044

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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