Have you ever wondered which of San Francisco or Los Angeles is a busier airport? Or Have you experienced significant flight delay that made you miss important events? Understanding the curiosity of aviation fans and pain points of frequent flyers who are sensitive to flight delay, we want to create this interactive website for them to make better flight choices to know about flight traffic and avoid flight delay as much as possible.
In 2015, all 12 US airlines carried out a total of 5.8 million flights between 628 airports. Chicago ranked No.1 among cities and Southwest ranked No.1 among airlines. The current map below shows all flights from Chicago with Southwest Airline.
Choose Departure City or Airline on the right dropdown filters and interact with the map!
Now let’s get to a finer granularity. In 2015, there were 113 flights taking off every 10 minutes and the peak happened between 06:00 and 06:10 with nearly 360 flights.
In below chart, choose one dimension to compare traffic between two airports or airlines
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Now sit back and relax to watch a paging animation of traffic of 24 hours in a day all over USA. You can see that traffic starts to pile up from 05:00 until 20:00 and California, Northeat, Chicago Texas are the busiest areas. If you want to know detailed information, simply hover above each city dot.
Select the origin cities and destination cities on the top right to filter the cities you are interested in. Hover on the map's routes, get to know the delay between different cities.
In general, all airlines witness heavy delays during first weeks of January and last weeks of December , and the least delays at end of April to May. Click on the start button to view delay information for each airline. The circle size represents their flight traffic for that day. You can mouseover the date to move forward and backwards through time.
To get an overview of which airlines perform badly on being on time, select the airlines on the top right filters to compare airlines delay time within one week and within one year.
If you want to book a flight for your next business trip between two cities, and avoid the delay time, we have the information for you! Not only between different airlines but also weekdays. Choose the least busy weekday and airline for you!
I am in San Francisco now, and I have already travelled many places around USA, I now have no idea about where to travel and I just want to save time on the way, by looking at the delay charts, I get to know where I want to go now.
I am going to book a flight for my boss's next business trip from SFO to LAX. I want to compare the average delay time of both Alaska and American Airline to avoid delay as much as possible, this website’s clear comparison is a lifesaver for me.
The interaction on this website is of so attractive and engaging, I can choose any airports, airlines and time as I want, so many insights about the USA flights have been gained from here. Definitely recommend it!