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AVL vs SFB - 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
SFB

Sanford, FL

Sanford, Florida

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric AVL SFB
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 80.0% 74.1%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 80.5 min 82.6 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 20.0% 25.9%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.56% 1.99%
Total Flights 114,713 113,898
Delayed Flights 22,985 29,554
Cancelled Flights 1,787 2,266
Top Delay Cause Late Aircraft Carrier

✓ / ▲ 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%

SFB - Sanford, FL

Carrier 35.6%
Late Aircraft 35.5%
NAS 15.6%
Weather 13.1%
Security 0.2%

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 SFB

Route Flights On-Time
SFB → ABE
Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton
3,302 76.3%
ABE → SFB
Sanford
3,299 82.2%
SFB → TYS
Knoxville
2,745 68.9%
TYS → SFB
Sanford
2,743 75.3%
SFB → AVL
Asheville
2,648 71.5%
AVL → SFB
Sanford
2,642 73.9%

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.