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BOS vs SAN - 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
SAN

San Diego, CA

San Diego, California

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric BOS SAN
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 79.9% 80.8%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 78.3 min 64.8 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 20.1% 19.2%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.19% 0.97%
Total Flights 1,455,478 973,807
Delayed Flights 292,211 186,727
Cancelled Flights 17,391 9,421
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%

SAN - San Diego, CA

Late Aircraft 46.4%
Carrier 28.6%
NAS 20.9%
Weather 3.9%
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 SAN

Route Flights On-Time
SAN → SFO
San Francisco
34,589 77.3%
SFO → SAN
San Diego
34,477 80.3%
LAS → SAN
San Diego
33,593 72.8%
SAN → LAS
Las Vegas
33,400 77.7%
SJC → SAN
San Diego
31,755 82.2%
SAN → SJC
San Jose
31,496 82%

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.