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Table 17
U.S. Passenger Airports with the Highest Percentage of Flight Delays

(Percentage of scheduled flights canceled, diverted, or arriving at least 15 minutes after the scheduled arrival time)

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Airport 2001 1991 Change 1991-2001
Rank Percent Rank Percent
Seattle-Tacoma Int., WA 1 30.7 7 20.7 10.0
San Francisco Int., CA 2 28.7 1 27.4 1.3
New York LaGuardia, NY 3 28.4 16 18.7 9.7
New York JFK Int., NY 4 27.8 4 21.9 5.9
Philadelphia Int., PA 5 27.4 17 18.3 9.1
Chicago O'Hare Int., IL 6 27.1 10 19.6 7.5
Boston Logan Int., MA 7 26.8 3 22.5 4.3
Los Angeles Int., CA 8 25.8 2 24.0 1.8
Newark Int., NJ 9 25.0 6 21.4 3.6
Miami Int., FL 10 24.4 9 19.7 4.7
Ft. Lauderdale Int., FL 11 23.8 13 19.1 4.7
Portland Int., OR 12 23.3 20 17.0 6.3
Washington Reagan Natl., DC 13 23.3 26 14.9 8.4
San Diego Int., CA 14 23.1 14 19.1 4.0
Washington Dulles Int., VA 15 22.7 25 15.1 7.6
Denver Int., CO 16 22.5 5 21.7 0.8
Atlanta Hartsfield Int., GA 17 22.5 8 20.0 2.5
Tampa Int., FL 18 22.2 22 16.7 5.5
Las Vegas McCarran Int., NV 19 21.5 18 17.0 4.5
Orlando Int., FL 20 21.3 19 17.0 4.3

Notes: The 32 largest airports (of which only the top 20 are shown in this table) each handled more than 1% of all domestically enplaned passengers in 2001. Denver International, CO, started operations in February of 1995. Prior to 1995, Denver Metropolitan Aviation Operations took place at Stapleton International Airport. 1991 data are based on delay information from Stapleton International Airport. Data are collected from U.S. carriers. For comparison purposes, Pan Am and Midway are excluded from 1991, and American Eagle and Aloha are excluded from 2001.

Source: USDOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Office of Airline Information data, special tabulation, Nov. 15, 2002.