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PDX vs LAX - 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
PDX

Portland, OR

Portland, Oregon

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Airport B
LAX

Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles, California

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric PDX LAX
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 84.4% 82.8%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 66.7 min 72.9 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 15.6% 17.2%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 0.83% 0.74%
Total Flights 661,488 2,137,032
Delayed Flights 103,008 366,815
Cancelled Flights 5,511 15,795
Top Delay Cause Carrier Carrier

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

Delay Cause Breakdown

PDX - Portland, OR

Carrier 38.4%
Late Aircraft 36.9%
NAS 20.2%
Weather 4.3%
Security 0.2%

LAX - Los Angeles, CA

Carrier 41.7%
Late Aircraft 36.3%
NAS 18.5%
Weather 3.3%
Security 0.2%

Top Routes

Top routes from PDX

Route Flights On-Time
PDX → SEA
Seattle
36,148 87.7%
SEA → PDX
Portland
35,578 83.7%
LAX → PDX
Portland
25,109 86.5%
PDX → LAX
Los Angeles
24,956 87.7%
PDX → DEN
Denver
23,123 84.1%
DEN → PDX
Portland
23,121 77.1%

Top routes from LAX

Route Flights On-Time
LAX → SFO
San Francisco
63,553 78.7%
SFO → LAX
Los Angeles
63,540 82.9%
LAX → LAS
Las Vegas
55,240 78.9%
LAS → LAX
Los Angeles
55,149 79.4%
JFK → LAX
Los Angeles
53,628 81.3%
LAX → JFK
New York
53,619 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.