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MFR vs SFO - 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
SFO

San Francisco, CA

San Francisco, California

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric MFR SFO
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 86.8% 81.0%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 83.0 min 72.5 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 13.2% 19.0%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 0.80% 0.85%
Total Flights 67,186 1,466,784
Delayed Flights 8,856 278,538
Cancelled Flights 535 12,405
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%

SFO - San Francisco, CA

Late Aircraft 42.0%
Carrier 36.9%
NAS 17.9%
Weather 3.2%
Security 0.1%

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 SFO

Route Flights On-Time
LAX → SFO
San Francisco
63,553 78.7%
SFO → LAX
Los Angeles
63,540 82.9%
SFO → SEA
Seattle
37,671 82.1%
SEA → SFO
San Francisco
37,651 79.1%
JFK → SFO
San Francisco
35,481 81.9%
SFO → JFK
New York
35,481 83.2%

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.