OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

SEAORD

Seattle to Chicago

1,721 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SEA–ORD arrive on time 73% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate73%arrived within 15 min
Median delayon timetypical arrival
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worsetail risk
Cancelled1.0%of scheduled flights

based on 5,405 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-time75%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel0.7%
    Flights891
  • United Airlinesbest
    On-time79%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel0.7%
    Flights1,534
  • Alaska Airlines
    On-time70%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel0.9%
    Flights1,841
  • American Airlines
    On-time69%
    Medianon time
    p9055 min
    Cancel1.8%
    Flights1,139

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline35%
  • Weather2%
  • Air traffic (NAS)30%
  • Late aircraft33%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

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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.