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Table 4-12
Major U.S. Airports' On-Time Arrival Performance

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Airport 2004 2005
On-Time rank % On-Time rank %
Salt Lake City, UT 3 82.2 1 83.5
Cincinnati, OH 16 79.9 2 82.7
Denver, CO 1 83.1 3 82.5
Chicago (Midway), IL 18 79.3 4 82.3
Houston (Bush), TX 8 81.0 5 81.5
Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX 7 81.2 6 81.3
Phoenix, AZ 15 80.0 7 81.1
St. Louis, MO 12 80.6 8 80.6
Baltimore, MD 9 80.8 9 80.2
Los Angeles, CA 4 81.7 10 80.1
Charlotte, NC 2 83.1 11 79.9
Oakland, CA 6 81.3 12 79.5
San Diego, CA 14 80.1 13 79.2
Washington (Dulles), DC 20 78.4 14 79.1
Washington (Reagan National), DC 10 80.7 15 78.7
Pittsburgh, PA 11 80.6 16 78.5
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN 13 80.5 17 78.2
Detroit, MI 5 81.4 18 78.1
Las Vegas, NV 25 77.7 19 77.8
Portland, OR 17 79.4 20 77.6
Orlando, FL 21 78.0 21 77.5
Tampa, FL 19 79.3 22 77.0
San Francisco, CA 26 76.9 23 75.1
Chicago (O'Hare), IL 33 70.1 24 74.9
Seattle, WA 24 77.8 25 74.5
Miami, FL 23 77.8 26 74.0
Boston, MA 22 77.9 27 72.5
Atlanta, GA 31 72.9 28 71.9
Philadelphia, PA 29 73.5 29 71.8
Fort Lauderdale, FL 28 75.6 30 71.1
New York (JFK), NY 27 76.1 31 70.3
New York (LaGuardia), NY 30 73.3 32 66.7
Newark, NJ 32 71.2 33 64.1

Note: On-time flights arrive within 15 minutes of scheduled arrival time.

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Airline On-Time Data, www.bts.gov.