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ORD vs SBN - 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
SBN

South Bend, IN

South Bend, Indiana

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric ORD SBN
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 81.0% 81.5%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 81.9 min 91.2 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 19.0% 18.5%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.16% 0.99%
Total Flights 3,114,086 72,322
Delayed Flights 592,111 13,350
Cancelled Flights 36,132 718
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%

SBN - South Bend, IN

Carrier 51.8%
Late Aircraft 25.1%
NAS 12.7%
Weather 10.2%
Security 0.1%

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 SBN

Route Flights On-Time
ORD → SBN
South Bend
9,392 76.6%
SBN → ORD
Chicago
9,390 79.6%
SBN → ATL
Atlanta
5,691 84.3%
ATL → SBN
South Bend
5,690 83.1%
CLT → SBN
South Bend
5,521 82.3%
SBN → CLT
Charlotte
5,519 83.1%

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.