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BOS vs ACK - 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
BOS

Boston, MA

Boston, Massachusetts

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Airport B
ACK

Nantucket, MA

Nantucket, Massachusetts

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric BOS ACK
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 79.9% 80.5%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 78.3 min 91.1 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 20.1% 19.5%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.19% 2.49%
Total Flights 1,455,478 17,080
Delayed Flights 292,211 3,324
Cancelled Flights 17,391 426
Top Delay Cause Carrier Late Aircraft

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

Delay Cause Breakdown

BOS - Boston, MA

Carrier 37.1%
Late Aircraft 34.4%
NAS 25.0%
Weather 3.4%
Security 0.1%

ACK - Nantucket, MA

Late Aircraft 47.9%
NAS 26.9%
Carrier 22.1%
Weather 2.9%
Security 0.2%

Top Routes

Top routes from BOS

Route Flights On-Time
BOS → DCA
Washington
49,205 81.6%
DCA → BOS
Boston
49,133 80.5%
LGA → BOS
Boston
39,006 82.4%
BOS → LGA
New York
38,931 83.4%
BOS → ORD
Chicago
35,774 82.1%
ORD → BOS
Boston
35,759 78.5%

Top routes from ACK

Route Flights On-Time
ACK → JFK
New York
2,109 76.2%
JFK → ACK
Nantucket
2,109 79.9%
ACK → LGA
New York
1,973 77.4%
LGA → ACK
Nantucket
1,973 83.2%
ACK → DCA
Washington
1,353 79.7%
DCA → ACK
Nantucket
1,353 82.6%

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.