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ORD vs SUX - 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
SUX

Sioux City, IA

Sioux City, Iowa

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric ORD SUX
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 81.0% 81.8%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 81.9 min 100.9 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 19.0% 18.2%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.16% 1.38%
Total Flights 3,114,086 9,052
Delayed Flights 592,111 1,644
Cancelled Flights 36,132 125
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%

SUX - Sioux City, IA

Carrier 49.8%
Late Aircraft 24.2%
NAS 14.2%
Weather 11.7%
Security 0.0%

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 SUX

Route Flights On-Time
ORD → SUX
Sioux City
2,124 78.6%
SUX → ORD
Chicago
2,092 80.5%
SUX → DEN
Denver
1,350 78.7%
DEN → SUX
Sioux City
1,349 81.8%

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.