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BIL vs SEA - 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
BIL

Billings, MT

Billings, Montana

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Airport B
SEA

Seattle, WA

Seattle, Washington

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric BIL SEA
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 85.7% 83.1%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 78.5 min 63.4 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 14.3% 16.9%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 0.73% 0.73%
Total Flights 51,010 1,871,155
Delayed Flights 7,307 315,819
Cancelled Flights 370 13,720
Top Delay Cause Carrier Carrier

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

Delay Cause Breakdown

BIL - Billings, MT

Carrier 39.2%
Late Aircraft 27.1%
NAS 22.5%
Weather 11.1%
Security 0.1%

SEA - Seattle, WA

Carrier 44.3%
Late Aircraft 28.6%
NAS 21.0%
Weather 5.8%
Security 0.3%

Top Routes

Top routes from BIL

Route Flights On-Time
BIL → DEN
Denver
7,478 81.6%
DEN → BIL
Billings
7,472 78.8%
BIL → SLC
Salt Lake City
6,399 91.5%
SLC → BIL
Billings
6,398 90%
BIL → DFW
Dallas/Fort Worth
3,502 81.8%
DFW → BIL
Billings
3,502 81.8%

Top routes from SEA

Route Flights On-Time
SEA → LAX
Los Angeles
41,859 84%
LAX → SEA
Seattle
41,819 86.2%
SEA → ANC
Anchorage
41,143 77.5%
ANC → SEA
Seattle
41,064 85.8%
PHX → SEA
Seattle
38,561 84.3%
SEA → PHX
Phoenix
38,549 82.3%

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.