America’s airports and their flight delays

We have published extensively about US airlines and their operational delays. We have also explained our estimates of what these delays have cost these airlines.  Now we want to explore the impacts at US airports. Our first pass focuses exclusively on the time delays have been and continue to take.

Let’s start off with the model.  There are 9 pages and please use the double-headed arrow at the bottom right of the model to optimize your viewing.

You will notice that the pandemic brought some relief to flight delays and delays are starting to rapidly return as the industry recovers. 2020 was lowest at 7.7 average delayed arrival minutes

.  Only six months into 2021 and we are back at 12. minutes and clawing our way back to the delayed past.