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ORD vs BTV - 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
ORD

Chicago, IL

Chicago, Illinois

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Airport B
BTV

Burlington, VT

Burlington, Vermont

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric ORD BTV
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 81.0% 83.4%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 81.9 min 88.9 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 19.0% 16.6%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.16% 1.65%
Total Flights 3,114,086 79,685
Delayed Flights 592,111 13,216
Cancelled Flights 36,132 1,313
Top Delay Cause Late Aircraft Carrier

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

Delay Cause Breakdown

ORD - Chicago, IL

Late Aircraft 39.2%
Carrier 33.6%
NAS 19.5%
Weather 7.7%
Security 0.1%

BTV - Burlington, VT

Carrier 35.0%
Late Aircraft 32.7%
NAS 21.7%
Weather 10.5%
Security 0.2%

Top Routes

Top routes from ORD

Route Flights On-Time
ORD → LGA
New York
56,539 78.2%
LGA → ORD
Chicago
56,521 80.8%
ORD → LAX
Los Angeles
37,020 79.8%
LAX → ORD
Chicago
36,987 84.3%
ORD → DEN
Denver
35,971 79.3%
DEN → ORD
Chicago
35,925 76.8%

Top routes from BTV

Route Flights On-Time
BTV → DCA
Washington
5,806 77.4%
DCA → BTV
Burlington
5,775 80.7%
JFK → BTV
Burlington
5,079 80.3%
BTV → JFK
New York
5,048 84.9%
ORD → BTV
Burlington
4,848 78.4%
BTV → ORD
Chicago
4,842 79.6%

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.