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IAH vs SJU - 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
IAH

Houston, TX

Houston, Texas

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Airport B
SJU

San Juan, PR

San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric IAH SJU
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 81.6% 76.1%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 79.8 min 78.5 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 18.4% 23.9%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.13% 0.85%
Total Flights 1,404,392 366,579
Delayed Flights 258,419 87,503
Cancelled Flights 15,858 3,126
Top Delay Cause Carrier Late Aircraft

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

Delay Cause Breakdown

IAH - Houston, TX

Carrier 38.4%
Late Aircraft 34.9%
NAS 18.1%
Weather 8.6%
Security 0.0%

SJU - San Juan, PR

Late Aircraft 45.2%
Carrier 38.4%
NAS 15.3%
Weather 0.9%
Security 0.2%

Top Routes

Top routes from IAH

Route Flights On-Time
IAH → DFW
Dallas/Fort Worth
30,197 76.6%
DFW → IAH
Houston
30,188 76.3%
IAH → LAX
Los Angeles
28,113 83.4%
LAX → IAH
Houston
28,102 86.2%
IAH → DEN
Denver
27,947 80%
IAH → ORD
Chicago
27,946 81%

Top routes from SJU

Route Flights On-Time
MCO → SJU
San Juan
35,205 74.1%
SJU → MCO
Orlando
35,197 77%
SJU → JFK
New York
19,165 77.9%
JFK → SJU
San Juan
19,069 72.3%
MIA → SJU
San Juan
14,957 78.3%
SJU → MIA
Miami
14,957 80.5%

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.