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SUN 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
SUN

Sun Valley/Hailey/Ketchum, ID

Sun Valley/Hailey/Ketchum, Idaho

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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 SUN LAX
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 88.6% 82.8%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 95.5 min 72.9 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 11.4% 17.2%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.43% 0.74%
Total Flights 22,928 2,137,032
Delayed Flights 2,622 366,815
Cancelled Flights 328 15,795
Top Delay Cause Carrier Carrier

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

Delay Cause Breakdown

SUN - Sun Valley/Hailey/Ketchum, ID

Carrier 45.0%
Weather 24.1%
Late Aircraft 15.6%
NAS 15.2%
Security 0.1%

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 SUN

Route Flights On-Time
SUN → SLC
Salt Lake City
5,319 91.7%
SLC → SUN
Sun Valley/Hailey/Ketchum
5,318 91.9%
DEN → SUN
Sun Valley/Hailey/Ketchum
2,224 83.1%
SUN → DEN
Denver
2,223 83.1%
SUN → LAX
Los Angeles
927 88.3%
LAX → SUN
Sun Valley/Hailey/Ketchum
926 86.5%

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.