North America flight rights: airports across the US and Canada

Understand the right rules for your itinerary

The United States has DOT refund protections and airline-specific service commitments, but generally no nationwide fixed cash payment just because a flight is late. Canada uses the Air Passenger Protection Regulations (APPR) with separate criteria for rebooking, refunds, assistance and compensation for certain disruptions.

Airports do not determine eligibility on their own. Check the origin, final destination, operating airline, disruption reason and whether you accepted replacement travel. These pages are guides, not live airport incident reports.

Official US DOT refunds ↗ · Official Canadian CTA guidance ↗

50 more airports added on 19 October 2026

Browse 100 additional delay and cancellation/refund guides for 40 US and 10 Canadian airports not included in the first directory. Each guide records its own airport identity and the appropriate national regulator.

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US airline service commitments: compare nine carriers

Airport rights and the operating airline's customer-service promises are different questions. Review a DOT-sourced comparison of rebooking, meal, hotel and other commitments for controllable delays and cancellations; a dated source snapshot is not a live promise.

Compare the nine US airlines and their recorded commitments →

US airports: measured on-time performance from July 2026

Separate from passenger-rights guidance, compare 200 airport-specific US Department of Transportation BTS historical reports: exact recorded flight samples, punctuality, cancellations, diversions and departure-hour cohorts. No live projections or compensation claims.

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200 measured US nonstop route directions — July 2026

Separate from passenger rights and airport-wide averages, compare BTS-measured nonstop domestic flight directions with historical on-time, cancellation, diversion and arrival delay statistics, plus reverse-direction records.

Browse 200 individual US domestic route-history reports →