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ACY vs PBI - Airport Comparison

Select two airports to compare on-time performance, delays, cancellations, and top routes using U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) data (2020–2025) across all 50 states. See our methodology for how metrics are computed.

Airport A
ACY

Atlantic City, NJ

Atlantic City, New Jersey

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Airport B
PBI

West Palm Beach/Palm Beach, FL

West Palm Beach/Palm Beach, Florida

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Key Performance Metrics

BTS on-time performance data, 2020–2025 cumulative.

Metric ACY PBI
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 82.3% 76.9%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 75.9 min 78.7 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 17.7% 23.1%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.21% 1.32%
Total Flights 34,258 302,058
Delayed Flights 6,073 69,881
Cancelled Flights 415 3,995
Top Delay Cause NAS Late Aircraft

✓ / ▲ indicates the more favorable value. Data: BTS On-Time Performance, 2020–2025.

Delay Cause Breakdown

ACY - Atlantic City, NJ

NAS 40.9%
Late Aircraft 30.0%
Carrier 26.9%
Weather 2.1%
Security 0.2%

PBI - West Palm Beach/Palm Beach, FL

Late Aircraft 47.4%
Carrier 28.4%
NAS 20.9%
Weather 3.2%
Security 0.1%

Top Routes

Top routes from ACY

Route Flights On-Time
ACY → MCO
Orlando
4,627 81.1%
MCO → ACY
Atlantic City
4,623 74.8%
ACY → FLL
Fort Lauderdale
3,286 79.8%
FLL → ACY
Atlantic City
3,258 77.9%
RSW → ACY
Atlantic City
2,277 85.7%
ACY → RSW
Fort Myers
2,248 87.3%

Top routes from PBI

Route Flights On-Time
ATL → PBI
West Palm Beach/Palm Beach
21,790 79.6%
PBI → ATL
Atlanta
21,779 85.7%
EWR → PBI
West Palm Beach/Palm Beach
17,961 74.9%
PBI → EWR
Newark
17,955 75.1%
LGA → PBI
West Palm Beach/Palm Beach
13,596 73.4%
PBI → LGA
New York
13,595 76.9%

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) On-time rates exclude cancelled and diverted flights. PlainFlights is not affiliated with BTS or the DOT

Every figure on PlainFlights is rendered directly from BTS On-Time Performance data, no number is typed in by an editor. This tool queries live on-time, delay, and cancellation figures for the two selected airports from the dataset. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.