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AVL vs PIE - 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
AVL

Asheville, NC

Asheville, North Carolina

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Airport B
PIE

St. Petersburg, FL

St. Petersburg, Florida

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric AVL PIE
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 80.0% 76.7%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 80.5 min 80.5 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 20.0% 23.3%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.56% 1.68%
Total Flights 114,713 96,149
Delayed Flights 22,985 22,444
Cancelled Flights 1,787 1,615
Top Delay Cause Late Aircraft Late Aircraft

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

Delay Cause Breakdown

AVL - Asheville, NC

Late Aircraft 38.7%
Carrier 32.4%
NAS 20.8%
Weather 7.9%
Security 0.2%

PIE - St. Petersburg, FL

Late Aircraft 40.3%
Carrier 26.8%
NAS 19.2%
Weather 13.3%
Security 0.5%

Top Routes

Top routes from AVL

Route Flights On-Time
ATL → AVL
Asheville
11,365 87%
AVL → ATL
Atlanta
11,362 87.3%
AVL → CLT
Charlotte
11,352 81.7%
CLT → AVL
Asheville
11,349 81.1%
AVL → ORD
Chicago
4,101 75.2%
ORD → AVL
Asheville
4,075 77%

Top routes from PIE

Route Flights On-Time
PIE → AVL
Asheville
2,202 73.7%
AVL → PIE
St. Petersburg
2,173 72.7%
PIE → TYS
Knoxville
1,528 68.7%
TYS → PIE
St. Petersburg
1,527 74.3%
CVG → PIE
St. Petersburg
1,483 72.8%
PIE → CVG
Cincinnati
1,482 68.7%

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.