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CLE vs LAX - 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
CLE

Cleveland, OH

Cleveland, Ohio

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Airport B
LAX

Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles, California

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric CLE LAX
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 82.0% 82.8%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 75.9 min 72.9 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 18.0% 17.2%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.27% 0.74%
Total Flights 446,498 2,137,032
Delayed Flights 80,317 366,815
Cancelled Flights 5,664 15,795
Top Delay Cause Late Aircraft Carrier

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

Delay Cause Breakdown

CLE - Cleveland, OH

Late Aircraft 38.2%
Carrier 32.4%
NAS 25.8%
Weather 3.5%
Security 0.1%

LAX - Los Angeles, CA

Carrier 41.7%
Late Aircraft 36.3%
NAS 18.5%
Weather 3.3%
Security 0.2%

Top Routes

Top routes from CLE

Route Flights On-Time
CLE → ORD
Chicago
18,867 84.8%
ORD → CLE
Cleveland
18,627 79.7%
CLE → ATL
Atlanta
18,092 85.8%
ATL → CLE
Cleveland
18,085 81.9%
LGA → CLE
Cleveland
12,684 83.6%
CLE → LGA
New York
12,654 83.6%

Top routes from LAX

Route Flights On-Time
LAX → SFO
San Francisco
63,553 78.7%
SFO → LAX
Los Angeles
63,540 82.9%
LAX → LAS
Las Vegas
55,240 78.9%
LAS → LAX
Los Angeles
55,149 79.4%
JFK → LAX
Los Angeles
53,628 81.3%
LAX → JFK
New York
53,619 81.8%

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.