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MFR vs PHX - 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
MFR

Medford, OR

Medford, Oregon

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Airport B
PHX

Phoenix, AZ

Phoenix, Arizona

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric MFR PHX
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 86.8% 81.7%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 83.0 min 71.3 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 13.2% 18.3%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 0.80% 0.77%
Total Flights 67,186 2,030,209
Delayed Flights 8,856 372,174
Cancelled Flights 535 15,535
Top Delay Cause Carrier Late Aircraft

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

Delay Cause Breakdown

MFR - Medford, OR

Carrier 50.0%
Late Aircraft 24.9%
Weather 13.1%
NAS 11.9%
Security 0.1%

PHX - Phoenix, AZ

Late Aircraft 44.7%
Carrier 39.1%
NAS 13.7%
Weather 2.3%
Security 0.2%

Top Routes

Top routes from MFR

Route Flights On-Time
MFR → SEA
Seattle
9,868 90.3%
SEA → MFR
Medford
9,865 88.7%
SFO → MFR
Medford
5,579 86%
MFR → SFO
San Francisco
5,577 83.8%
MFR → DEN
Denver
4,634 86.4%
DEN → MFR
Medford
4,633 76.1%

Top routes from PHX

Route Flights On-Time
PHX → DEN
Denver
49,558 80.7%
DEN → PHX
Phoenix
49,508 77.8%
LAX → PHX
Phoenix
40,246 83.7%
PHX → LAX
Los Angeles
40,241 85%
PHX → SEA
Seattle
38,561 84.3%
SEA → PHX
Phoenix
38,549 82.3%

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.