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ACY vs TPA - 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
TPA

Tampa, FL

Tampa, Florida

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric ACY TPA
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 82.3% 79.8%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 75.9 min 73.4 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 17.7% 20.2%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.21% 1.30%
Total Flights 34,258 860,941
Delayed Flights 6,073 173,948
Cancelled Flights 415 11,168
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%

TPA - Tampa, FL

Late Aircraft 47.0%
Carrier 28.4%
NAS 20.3%
Weather 4.2%
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 TPA

Route Flights On-Time
TPA → ATL
Atlanta
36,188 83.4%
ATL → TPA
Tampa
36,182 78.6%
CLT → TPA
Tampa
18,976 77.4%
TPA → CLT
Charlotte
18,970 83.1%
TPA → ORD
Chicago
18,049 81%
ORD → TPA
Tampa
18,022 78.2%

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.