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ATW vs ATL - 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
ATW

Appleton, WI

Appleton, Wisconsin

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Airport B
ATL

Atlanta, GA

Atlanta, Georgia

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric ATW ATL
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 82.3% 83.7%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 88.2 min 72.9 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 17.7% 16.3%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 0.97% 0.79%
Total Flights 63,493 3,758,561
Delayed Flights 11,237 613,025
Cancelled Flights 618 29,771
Top Delay Cause Carrier Carrier

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

Delay Cause Breakdown

ATW - Appleton, WI

Carrier 51.1%
Late Aircraft 18.9%
NAS 17.4%
Weather 12.7%
Security 0.0%

ATL - Atlanta, GA

Carrier 46.8%
Late Aircraft 27.2%
NAS 19.4%
Weather 6.4%
Security 0.2%

Top Routes

Top routes from ATW

Route Flights On-Time
ATW → ORD
Chicago
7,968 78.4%
ORD → ATW
Appleton
7,968 77.8%
ATW → MSP
Minneapolis
5,714 85.4%
MSP → ATW
Appleton
5,710 85.6%
DTW → ATW
Appleton
5,201 84.7%
ATW → DTW
Detroit
5,199 85.1%

Top routes from ATL

Route Flights On-Time
MCO → ATL
Atlanta
47,291 78.1%
ATL → MCO
Orlando
47,234 76.2%
FLL → ATL
Atlanta
42,458 77.5%
ATL → FLL
Fort Lauderdale
42,441 77.2%
ATL → LGA
New York
42,079 80.8%
LGA → ATL
Atlanta
42,078 82.2%

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.