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GEG 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
GEG

Spokane, WA

Spokane, Washington

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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 GEG LAX
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 84.4% 82.8%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 67.4 min 72.9 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 15.6% 17.2%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 0.63% 0.74%
Total Flights 205,595 2,137,032
Delayed Flights 32,016 366,815
Cancelled Flights 1,303 15,795
Top Delay Cause Carrier Carrier

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

Delay Cause Breakdown

GEG - Spokane, WA

Carrier 40.0%
Late Aircraft 33.6%
NAS 17.3%
Weather 8.8%
Security 0.3%

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 GEG

Route Flights On-Time
GEG → SEA
Seattle
31,745 86.5%
SEA → GEG
Spokane
31,686 83.3%
DEN → GEG
Spokane
10,861 76.8%
GEG → DEN
Denver
10,835 85%
SLC → GEG
Spokane
9,439 87.4%
GEG → SLC
Salt Lake City
9,437 89%

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.