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GEG vs PAE - 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
PAE

Everett, WA

Everett, Washington

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric GEG PAE
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 84.4% 84.3%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 67.4 min 61.8 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 15.6% 15.7%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 0.63% 0.97%
Total Flights 205,595 19,411
Delayed Flights 32,016 3,043
Cancelled Flights 1,303 189
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%

PAE - Everett, WA

Carrier 41.0%
Late Aircraft 30.3%
NAS 25.1%
Weather 3.6%
Security 0.1%

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 PAE

Route Flights On-Time
PHX → PAE
Everett
2,455 83%
PAE → PHX
Phoenix
2,451 84.7%
PAE → LAS
Las Vegas
1,168 82.4%
LAS → PAE
Everett
1,167 80%
PAE → SFO
San Francisco
769 82.6%
SFO → PAE
Everett
769 80.8%

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.