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PHL vs PBI - 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
PHL

Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Airport B
PBI

West Palm Beach/Palm Beach, FL

West Palm Beach/Palm Beach, Florida

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric PHL PBI
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 81.3% 76.9%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 84.7 min 78.7 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 18.7% 23.1%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.19% 1.32%
Total Flights 1,060,086 302,058
Delayed Flights 198,194 69,881
Cancelled Flights 12,586 3,995
Top Delay Cause Late Aircraft Late Aircraft

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

Delay Cause Breakdown

PHL - Philadelphia, PA

Late Aircraft 41.1%
Carrier 31.7%
NAS 22.4%
Weather 4.7%
Security 0.2%

PBI - West Palm Beach/Palm Beach, FL

Late Aircraft 47.4%
Carrier 28.4%
NAS 20.9%
Weather 3.2%
Security 0.1%

Top Routes

Top routes from PHL

Route Flights On-Time
MCO → PHL
Philadelphia
32,254 74.8%
PHL → MCO
Orlando
32,240 76.4%
ATL → PHL
Philadelphia
32,104 80.2%
PHL → ATL
Atlanta
32,089 83.4%
PHL → BOS
Boston
26,321 82%
BOS → PHL
Philadelphia
26,282 83.5%

Top routes from PBI

Route Flights On-Time
ATL → PBI
West Palm Beach/Palm Beach
21,790 79.6%
PBI → ATL
Atlanta
21,779 85.7%
EWR → PBI
West Palm Beach/Palm Beach
17,961 74.9%
PBI → EWR
Newark
17,955 75.1%
LGA → PBI
West Palm Beach/Palm Beach
13,596 73.4%
PBI → LGA
New York
13,595 76.9%

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.