Route reliability
Which airline is most on time on your route?
Enter two airport codes to compare airlines on that route: how often flights arrive on time, get cancelled or land an hour or more late, and which months are worst. Built from 7,049,869 flights reported to the U.S. Department of Transportation, September 2025 to August 2026.
7,049,869 scheduled flightsSeptember 2025 to August 2026
- On time, all U.S. airlines
- 75.6% Arrived within 15 minutes
- Cancelled
- 1.9% Of scheduled flights
- Scheduled flights
- 7,049,869 September 2025 to August 2026
- Route pages
- 500 Busiest nonstop routes, each direction
Airlines ranked by on-time arrival
All routes, 12 months
| Airline | On time | Cancelled | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.Hawaiian Airlines | 80.0% | 0.9% | 26,175 |
| 2.Delta Air Lines | 79.5% | 1.7% | 1,039,517 |
| 3.Envoy AirSold as American Eagle | 79.0% | 2.2% | 320,362 |
| 4.Alaska Airlines | 78.5% | 1.2% | 309,844 |
| 5.United Airlines | 77.8% | 1.0% | 830,825 |
| 6.SkyWest AirlinesSold as United Express, Delta Connection, American Eagle, Alaska | 77.0% | 1.8% | 855,406 |
| 7.Southwest Airlines | 74.8% | 0.9% | 1,391,794 |
| 8.Republic AirwaysSold as American Eagle, Delta Connection, United Express | 74.3% | 4.5% | 364,452 |
| 9.Allegiant Air | 73.1% | 0.7% | 126,005 |
| 10.American Airlines | 72.9% | 2.1% | 988,892 |
| 11.Frontier Airlines | 71.1% | 2.0% | 213,022 |
| 12.PSA AirlinesSold as American Eagle | 69.7% | 4.8% | 242,979 |
| 13.Spirit Airlines | 68.6% | 4.5% | 99,981 |
| 14.JetBlue Airways | 68.5% | 3.6% | 240,615 |
Busiest routes
- New York (LGA) → Chicago (ORD) 62.8%
- Los Angeles (LAX) → San Francisco (SFO) 59.6%
- New York (JFK) → Los Angeles (LAX) 73.2%
- Honolulu (HNL) → Kahului (OGG) 83.2%
- Boston (BOS) → Washington (DCA) 69.4%
- Denver (DEN) → Phoenix (PHX) 74.9%
- Atlanta (ATL) → New York (LGA) 68.6%
- Atlanta (ATL) → Orlando (MCO) 68.9%
- Las Vegas (LAS) → Los Angeles (LAX) 77.4%
- Boston (BOS) → Chicago (ORD) 69.4%
- Denver (DEN) → Salt Lake City (SLC) 77.8%
- Denver (DEN) → Los Angeles (LAX) 78.3%
- Honolulu (HNL) → Lihue (LIH) 82.4%
- Los Angeles (LAX) → Phoenix (PHX) 79.6%
- Los Angeles (LAX) → Seattle (SEA) 84.2%
- Boston (BOS) → New York (LGA) 71.3%
- Atlanta (ATL) → Fort Lauderdale (FLL) 68.8%
- Honolulu (HNL) → Kona (KOA) 84.1%
- Phoenix (PHX) → Seattle (SEA) 81.4%
- Denver (DEN) → Las Vegas (LAS) 74.9%
Sources & data dates
- Source
- U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance (1987-present)
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026 (12 months); month-of-year patterns September 2023 to August 2026
- Data through
- August 2026
- Processed
- 2026-11-03
- Scope
- Scheduled nonstop domestic flights of U.S. airlines that report on-time data to the DOT.
- Method
- Rates use all scheduled flights as the denominator; cancelled and diverted flights count as not on time. Figures based on fewer than 50 scheduled flights are suppressed. Full methodology.