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TUS 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
TUS

Tucson, AZ

Tucson, Arizona

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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 TUS LAX
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 83.8% 82.8%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 73.3 min 72.9 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 16.2% 17.2%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 0.81% 0.74%
Total Flights 200,641 2,137,032
Delayed Flights 32,454 366,815
Cancelled Flights 1,619 15,795
Top Delay Cause Carrier Carrier

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

Delay Cause Breakdown

TUS - Tucson, AZ

Carrier 41.0%
Late Aircraft 35.4%
NAS 17.2%
Weather 6.3%
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 TUS

Route Flights On-Time
PHX → TUS
Tucson
14,279 85.1%
TUS → PHX
Phoenix
14,273 85.1%
TUS → DEN
Denver
13,748 84.4%
DEN → TUS
Tucson
13,698 77.6%
TUS → LAX
Los Angeles
12,838 86.6%
LAX → TUS
Tucson
12,831 83.4%

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.