With the holiday season upon us, millions of people will be traveling to join their friends and families for that special meal. They may have the foresight to buy their plane ticket in advance to avoid price hikes, but the one thing they cannot predict are the dreaded weather delays.
Few things can disrupt a beach vacation or business trip as quickly as a delayed flight. One way that many people attempt to avoid common airport delays is by flying on a private jet. Not everybody has the luxury of being able to fly privately, but its now more accessible than ever, thanks to services such as Jettly, an app that presents on-demand private flights ready for you to take your seat on. Of course, bad weather is bad weather, and delays do happen, but some airports run into trouble with Mother Nature far more than others.
Now you can plan ahead with weather.com’s list of the Top 15 “Worst Weather-Delayed Airports.”
To compile the “Worst Weather-Delayed Airports” list, weather.com examined weather-related arrival flight-delay data over a 12-month period from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
From August 2013 through July 2014, nearly 23 percent of U.S. flights arrived at least 15 minutes late, were cancelled, or diverted – roughly 31 percent of those were a result of weather.
Who is the worst offender? San Francisco International Airport (SFO). SFO ranks #1 on the list. For an airport that clocked nearly 168,000 arrivals, it had nearly 26,000 weather-related delays over that 12-month period. That means more than half of SFO arrivals experience a weather-related delay! Other airports that will cause you to be tardy for the party include: Chicago-O’Hare International Airport (ORD), LaGuardia Airport (LGA), and Denver International Airport (DEN). Check out the rest of the “Worst Weather-Delayed Airports” list on weather.com
From Aug. 2013 to July 2014, nearly 23 percent of U.S. flights arrived at least 15 minutes late, were cancelled or diverted, according to U.S. Department of Transportation statistics. That amounted to roughly 1.4 million delayed, cancelled or diverted flights over the 12-month period.
Of all late-arriving flights, roughly 31 percent, or 391,000, were due to weather, according to the U.S. DOT. Since 2004, weather has been responsible for one-third to one-half of all delays annually.
Put another way, weather-related delays from Aug. 2013 through July 2014 added up to more than 23 million minutes, or the equivalent of just over 44 years.
A study by the University of California-Berkeley in 2007 estimated the following staggering costs of flight delays:
- $32.9 billion total cost to U.S. economy – more costly than all U.S. hurricanes except Katrina and Superstorm Sandy.
- Of that total, $16.7 billion was borne by passengers in lost time and additional travel expenses.
- Gross domestic product reduced by $4 billion.
In addition, a 2007 congressional study estimated that 740 million gallons of additional jet fuel was burned due to flight delays, about five percent of total fuel consumption.
Weather.com examined weather-related arrival flight-delay data from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics for the 12-month period, the most recent data available.
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Weather.com for its list of the worst weather-delayed airports, considered both the raw number of weather delays as well as the percentage of all delays due to weather at 122 U.S. airports with at least 5,000 flights. They ranked the airports in each category, then added the rankings together. Then, they ranked them all. The lower the index, the worse the weather.
A flight is considered “delayed” if it arrived at least 15 minutes later than scheduled. It should be noted some weather-related delays are not due to weather occurring at the airport itself, but sometimes in other areas of the country.
Here is Weather.com’s list of the top 15 worst weather-delay airports in the U. S.:
1. San Francisco International
2. Chicago O’Hare
3. LaGuardia, New York.
4. Denver.
5. Newark.
6. JFK New York City.
7. Dallas.
8. Houston..
9. Boston.
10. Philadelphia.
11. Minneapolis.
12. Chicago Midway.
13. Miami.
14. Detroit.
15. Orlando.
