OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Detroit to San Juan

1,929 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DTW–SJU arrive on time 73% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate73%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay35 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.3%of scheduled flights

based on 232 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time73%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel1.3%
    Flights232

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline41%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)45%
  • Late aircraft10%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Air traffic (NAS).

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline33%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)0%
  • Security67%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Security. Shares are among 3 cancellations with a reported cause (BTS reports causes from June 2003).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly DTW → SJU

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-06 .. 2026-05).

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 73% to 85% on time.

  • Tuesdays85% on time · p90 20 min · 151 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays83% on time · p90 20 min · 155 flights · limited
  • Sundays82% on time · p90 35 min · 170 flights · limited
  • Saturdays80% on time · p90 25 min · 214 flights
  • Fridays79% on time · p90 30 min · 181 flights · limited
  • Thursdays73% on time · p90 35 min · 166 flights · limited
  • Mondays73% on time · p90 35 min · 182 flights · limited

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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.