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Airport Reliability

FAI · Fairbanks

Fairbanks International Airport

86%
Departures within 15 minutes
5 min
Average departure delay
81%
Arrivals within 15 minutes
1.9%
Departures cancelled

Based on 5,397 departures and 5,398 arrivals. Data through May 2026.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

Departures from FAI departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 91% of the time, versus 80% between 3–6 PM.

Sunday comes out ahead.

A small edge: 89% on time on Sundays against 83% on Fridays.

Trending in the right direction.

Departures from FAI arrived on time 89% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 75% in the three months before that.

When FAI gets messy

On-time by departure window
  • 12–3 AM83%(1067 flights)
  • 3–6 AM90%(641 flights)
  • 6–9 AM90%(499 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM91%(431 flights)
  • 12–3 PM82%(900 flights)
  • 3–6 PM80%(815 flights)
  • 6–9 PM83%(477 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM88%(459 flights)
On-time by weekday
  • Mon84%(773 flights)
  • Tue83%(755 flights)
  • Wed85%(726 flights)
  • Thu85%(769 flights)
  • Fri83%(776 flights)
  • Sat86%(696 flights)
  • Sun89%(794 flights)
On-time trend by month
89%
May

Jun 86% → May 89% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202586%579
July 202587%624
August 202586%617
September 202589%529
October 202586%371
November 202586%351
December 202568%372
January 202677%365
February 202680%336
March 202684%366
April 202694%357
May 202689%422

Airlines departing FAI

Busiest routes from FAI

Based on 5,397 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.