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How to Help People Affected by LA Wildfires: 10 Places Accepting Donations and Volunteers

Los Angeles County is facing a severe wildfire crisis, with multiple fires, including the Hurst, Eaton, and Palisades fires, threatening communities across Southern California. These fires have killed at least five people and nearly 180,000 people have been forced to evacuate thus far. The situation is exacerbated by dangerous winds and dry conditions, making the rapidly evolving fires difficult to control.

Currently, the fires remain uncontained. For live updates on the status of the fires, follow the live blog on LAist and other local news organizations. Those outside of LA looking to help can support a range of places accepting donations in-person as well as monetary donations.

Many of these organizations emphasize that monetary donations are often more helpful than physical goods, as they allow for quicker responses to immediate needs and avoid storage issues.

In addition to the below organizations, many local restaurants in the Los Angeles area are offering free meals to evacuees and first responders, and Airbnb is offering free temporary stays for people who are displaced.

Further resources and ways to help the people impacted by the fires can be found on this regularly updated Google Sheet, which also has resources for pets and animals affected by the fires, a list of shelters, boarding facilities, and organizations that provide pet goods and pet-friendly rides.

Where to donate to support people in need during the LA wildfires

Direct Relief: Provides N-95 masks, medicine, and other resources to healthcare agencies and first responders in wildfire-affected communities across California, and 100 percent of donations to their wildfire response fund directly support these efforts. Direct Relief is actively deploying emergency medical supplies for first responders and displaced residents, as well as respiratory protection equipment to mitigate smoke exposure risks, in Los Angeles.

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GlobalGiving’s California Wildfire Relief Fund: Supports immediate needs such as food, water, and shelter, as well as longer-term recovery efforts. Donations to this fund will go to local vetted organizations working in affected areas.

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Americares: Responding to the wildfires around Los Angeles by providing medicines and medical supplies. Every $10 donated can provide $200 in aid.

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The American Red Cross: Provides shelter, food, emotional support, and health services to those affected by the wildfires. You can donate to their disaster relief fund online, by phone, or by texting. The organization also has a map of where people can find shelter.

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Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation: The official non-profit of the Los Angeles City Fire Department, which supports local firefighters and paramedics by providing equipment and tools to help them effectively fight wildfires.

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California Community Foundation’s Wildfire Recovery Fund: Supports communities with both intermediate recovery and long-term resilience, targeting the most underserved and hard-to-reach communities. Donations can be made online, by check, stock, or wire transfer.

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The Salvation Army: Accepting donations to help the organization provide food, water, shelter, and other needed resources. The organization provides both emergency relief and long-term recovery assistance for evacuees and first responders.

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LA Food Bank: Provides food assistance to those facing hunger, and is currently seeking volunteers and also accepting food donations at distribution centers in Los Angeles and Industry City.

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LA Works: Organizes and deploys volunteers to areas with most need.

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World Central Kitchen: Accepts donations and volunteers to prepare and serve food to first responders and evacuees.

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Airbnb Is Opening Homes For Free For People Displaced by the LA Wildfires

Airbnb.org is partnering with 211 LA to help those who have lost their homes to the Los Angeles wildfires, or who have been ordered to leave their neighborhoods, to find free, temporary housing.

At the time of writing, the multiple wildfires currently raging across LA have killed five people, destroyed nearly 2,000 structures, and led to the evacuation order of more than 130,000 people, a news report says.

Airbnb.org is a non-profit branch of Airbnb whose goal is to provide emergency housing for those in need in times of crisis. To help LA residents affected by the wildfires, it is partnering with 211 LA, a non-profit organization that connects LA residents with essential health, human, and social services.

Impacted LA residents who need temporary housing at this time must fill out this intake form. Airbnb.org will not provide housing directly to individuals.

Stays offered by Airbnb.org via 211 LA are funded by Airbnb.org and are entirely free thanks to generous Airbnb hosts who offer their home without charge or at a discount rate.

If you are a resident of the LA area and want to help provide housing to those displaced by the wildfires, visit Airbnb.org to sign up as a host. All services fees will be waived and you will be given damage protection and liability insurance for each booking, Airbnb explains in a press release.

If you wish to help to impacted in other ways, you can make a donation to Airbnb.org. 100 percent of your donations will go toward providing emergency housing to those affected.

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These Cruise Lines Have Their Own Submarines and You Can Take a Ride in Them

Cruise lines never cease to improve and expand their onboard offerings, hoping to have en edge on the competition. Whether that’s Cunard organizing fencing and archery lessons at sea, MSC equipping its newest ship (MSC World America) with a unique and terrifying over-water swing ride, or Royal Caribbean opening the largest waterpark at sea onboard the upcoming Star of the Seas, cruise lines try hard to differentiate themselves from the lot and attract more travelers to their ships. In this effort from cruise lines to stand out, Viking, Scenic, and Seabourn have gone as far as possible and now offer their guests the chance to explore the ocean’s depth on board their own mini submarines.

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Viking’s submersibles

Photo: VikingPhoto: VikingPrice: A ride on board one of Viking’s submarines costs $499 per person.Where: At the time of writing, Viking guests can take submarine rides in Antarctica, Canada, the Great Lakes, and the Chilean Fjords. However, starting next summer, when Viking begins sailing in the Arctic, the submersibles will also dive in Greenland and Arctic Canada.

Viking has been offering its guests submarine rides since 2022, when the cruise line launched its expeditions ships: Viking Octantis and Viking Polaris. Both ships are equipped with a pair of submersibles named after The Beatles: John and Paul are on board Viking Polaris, and George and Ringo are on board Viking Octantis.

Viking’s submersibles were all designed and manufactured by Dutch company U-Boat Worx. U-Boat Worx has launched no less than 60 submarines in the company’s 20-year history.

Submarine rides are extremely popular with Viking guests. In an email, a spokesperson for the cruise line says that “[…] nearly all of the scheduled dives planned for voyages are fully booked ahead of embarkation day. When schedules allows for additional availability, some guests book the experience twice.”

But the submarines are not only for the enjoyment of guests. Viking’s Expedition Team, which includes scientists and submarine pilots, also benefits from the observations made during dives for their research.

“In 2022, guests saw a rare Stygiomedusa gigantea, known as the giant phantom jellyfish, during a submarine dive in Antarctica,” the spokesperson explains. “Prior to this, the giant phantom jellyfish had only previously been observed in the deep ocean waters,” she continued. The Viking Expedition Team’s findings were written up in the scientific publication, Polar Research.

Rules, requirements, and procedureThe Hangar. Photo: VikingThe Hangar. Photo: Viking

Unsurprisingly, there are rules to follow and requirements to meet for guests to take a submarine ride during their Viking cruise. The cruisers who wish to dive on board one the submersibles need to attend mandatory lectures led by the submarines’ pilots. They also have to take an agility test to see how they fare in tight spaces, and must be weighed.

Viking’s submersibles can only accommodate up to six guests at a time, and all of them are assigned a dive time, a number for entering the vessel, and an assigned seat. All guests must wear the provided neoprene booties during the dive, and all must leave their large cameras or equipment behind so that the acrylic windows of the submersible don’t get scratched.

The submersibles are kept in The Hangar, a section of the ship where tenders and other equipment are stored. On dive day, the doors of The Hangar, located on the sides of the ship, open and the submarines are lowered into the water with cables. The pilots then guide the submarines to the dive locations and guests are taken there by Zodiacs. Each guest enters the submersible from the top by numerical order.

Once the submarine is submerged, the guests’ seats rotate towards the windows for a better view of the surroundings. The experience lasts around one hour, with 30 minutes under water.

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Scenic’s submarines

Neptune II. Photo: Scenic Cruises

Price: A ride on board one of Scenic’s submarines costs approximately $1,000 per person. Submersible experiences can only be booked while onboard.Where: Antarctica, South Georgia and the Falklands, the Ross Sea and East Antarctica, the Arctic, the Chilean Fjords, and Greenland.

Scenic owns two ultra-luxury Discovery Yachts for their ocean voyages: Scenic Eclipse I and Scenic Eclipse II, both of which are equipped with one custom-designed submersible each: Neptune (2022), and Neptune II (2024), respectively. While Neptune can hold a maximum of six guests, Neptune II can accommodate eight travelers at a time. Both submersibles can dive down to 328 feet beneath the surface, and offer clear underwater views thanks to large, ultra-clear acrylic spheres.

Rules, requirements, and procedure

According to a spokesperson for Scenic, submarine rides are “subject to regulatory approval, availability, weight restrictions, medical approval, and weather, ice and tidal conditions” that will be shared and determined while on board the ship.

Each submersible is kept in a storage area inside the ship and dispatched through a door on the side of the vessel on dive days. It is then lowered down into the water via a winch system. Guests are transferred to the submarine by Zodiac, and crew members help each guest access the vessel from the top. Guests are asked to be either barefoot or in socks while inside the submersible in order to keep the vessel in good conditions.

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Seabourn’s submersibles

Photo: SeabournPhoto: SeabournPhoto: SeabournPrice: A ride on board one of Seabourn’s submarines starts at $900 per person. Seabourn’s submarine expeditions are usually fully booked.Where: The Arctic, Antarctica, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. Submarine rides are dependent on currents and visibility conditions and cannot be guaranteed.

Seabourn’s ultra-luxury purpose-built expedition ships, Seabourn Venture and Seabourn Pursuit, are home to two submersibles each. The cruise lines has been offering submarine rides since 2022, when Seabourn Venture launched. Seabourn Pursuit started operating in 2023.

All of Seabourn’s submersibles can accommodate up to six guests (three on each side of the vessel), and can dive down to 984 feet below the surface.

But the cruise line’s submarines are not only there for the enjoyment of the guests. According to a spokesperson from the cruise line, Seabourn has been helping the work of Dr Susanne Lockhart, a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences, and her project Southern Ocean Citizen Submersible Initiative (SOCSI). Lockhart utilizes video footage from Seabourn’s submarines to identify and monitor vulnerable marine communities, and make proposals for their protection.

Seabourn’s submarines are custom-built by U-Boat Worx, the same Netherland-based manufacturer that built Viking’s submersibles.

Rules, requirements, and procedure

All the guests wishing to take a ride on one of Seabourn’s submarines must be physically able to pass through a narrow hatch and walk down and up a steep vertical ladder. Guests as young as eight years of age can ride in Seabourn’s submarines, but all those under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

For safety purposes, prior to the submarine ride, guests are weighted along with the equipment their want to take with them on the submersible.

All guests partaking in submarine expedition during a Seabourn cruise must remove their shoes and wear special socks during the ride.

Each submarine launches by being lowered by cables into the water from the ship. Once the submersible has been taken to the desired location, passengers are brought by Zodiac to board through a hatch located on top of the vessel.

All of Seabourn’s submarines are equipped with 4K underwater video camera system that will record the experience.

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25 Places to Go in 2025 Spotlight: Helsinki

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New direct summer flights on Finnair will take travelers in the United States straight to one of the most sustainable cities in the world in 2025 (and the Matador Network Readers Choice award winner in the Sustainable Destination category). The Finnish capital has consistently earned accolades for its sustainability efforts, recently topping the Global Destination Sustainability Index with a score of 92.43 percent.

This isn’t just a marketing ploy. Helsinki has ambitious goals for carbon neutrality by 2030 and zero emissions by 2040. Ambitious goals are best understood through first-hand travel. See, for example, the Greenest of the Green Block, a residential area showcasing energy-efficient buildings and green roofs. Sustainable practices extend to transportation, with investments in public transit and cycling infrastructure that simplifies travel without a car rental. The long summer days (almost 19 hours of sunlight at the peak of summer) are obviously one of the most popular times to visit, but Helsinki promotes off-season travel to avoid overtourism and ensure a more balanced visitor experience.

But Helsinki offers more than just eco-friendly initiatives. Explore the city’s pedestrian-friendly zones, like Esplanadi streets and Kasarmikatu, where you can easily navigate through charming shops, cafes, and museums. Nature lovers will find solace in Helsinki’s abundant parks and protected coastlines that have a network of trails. Naturally, in a city with sustainability standards like Helsinki’s, finding eco-conscious accommodations is a breeze. More than 50 hotels hold Booking.com’s “Sustainability” certification, including brands like Scandic Hotels with their Nordic Swan eco-label properties.

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25 Places to Go in 2025 Spotlight: Nuuk, Greenland

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High summer heat in the traditional travel hot spots is getting unbearable. Europe saw the hottest summer on record in 2024, with visitors to Athens subjected to temperatures so high popular attractions like the Acropolis were forced to close, and those in cities like Rome and Madrid faced heat that made walking tours (or anything outdoors) extremely uncomfortable at best. So it makes sense that travelers are increasingly skipping hot weather destinations in search of more moderate, or even cold, places to go. The industry even has a ready-made phrase for them: “coolcationers.”

It is hard to imagine a more apt coolcation destination than Greenland. The largest island in the world is more accessible than ever thanks to a new international airport in Nuuk, the capital city, that opened in November 2024. With the new airport come new flights, including the only direct air link between the United States and Greenland. The seasonal, bi-weekly, non-stop United Airlines flight from Newark to Nuuk starts in June 2025. It’s the perfect opportunity for the outdoorsy, culturally curious, and wildlife-oriented travelers to hike the Arctic Circle Trail, witness the wonder of the northern lights, sleep in igloos, learn about dog sledding and traditional garments in Inuit culture, and see whales and seals up close.

Easier accessibility is a big reason why Matador Network readers voted Greenland as the winner of 2024’s Next Big Destination Readers’ Choice Award.

Those who don’t want to plan their own trip can rely on operators like US-based travel company Adventure Life, which recently started offering land-based tours in the territory. Two more airports are scheduled to open in Greenland in 2026: one in Ilulissat (home to a UNESCO-listed Icefjord) and one in Qaqortoq (the northernmost city in the world). It’s safe to say that Greenland is bound to experience a surge of visitors in the next few years. Be ahead of the curve and visit in 2025 while it’s still quiet.

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25 Places to Go in 2025 Spotlight: Atacama Desert

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The solar eclipse in 2024 spurred an unprecedented amount of travel in areas across North America that were covered by the path of totality. In March of 2025, a full lunar eclipse (when the Earth passes between the sun and moon during a full moon) will pass over the Atacama Desert for an astrological event that’s no less stunning — particularly when you account for the fact that the area is one of the best night sky viewing locations on the planet. That’s just the start for anyone who travels to see natural wonders that are truly one of a kind.

As one of the driest places on Earth, the Atacama presents a surreal panorama of salt flats, towering volcanoes, geysers, and otherworldly rock formations. There are the landscapes of the Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley), geysers at El Tatio, and observatories where visitors can look through powerful telescopes to see past the clear high-altitude skies and into the heavens. White salt flats extend as far as the eye can see, punctuated by turquoise lagoons and deep canyons that people can hike through. Massive dunes are an opportunity to sandboard, or watch others take on an incredible feat of endurance during the 250-kilometer Atacama Crossing footrace.

A cap on it all is the reopening of the boutique luxury eco-lodge Tierra Atacama following a complete renovation. Four new suites with an elevated private experience are being added to the year-round property, which will reopen on April 1.

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25 Places to Go in 2025 Spotlight: Rajasthan, India

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India’s sheer size and diversity of culture, landscape, culinary scene, and wildlife make it equally exciting and intimidating. You can spend a lifetime traveling the country and still feel like you’ve barely scratched the surface. Yet there’s good reason to stick to the Golden Triangle of New Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur in the state of Rajasthan. It makes a vacation itinerary feel more doable, and for a first-timer, it’s a sensible place to start.

Rajasthan is a window into India’s cultural history. Jaipur, Rajasthan’s capital, is known as the Pink City (pink being the symbolic color of hospitality). The jaw-dropping mountains of the Aravalli Range surround the romantic (and poetically chaotic) municipality that is jam-packed with palaces and forts built under the reign of Maharajas. It seems only fitting when visiting to stay in a hotel that evokes the splendor of the places you’ll be visiting. For this, one of the most chattered about new hotels of 2024, Raffles Jaipur, will do nicely.

The palatial retreat opened in July 2024, and is just a short drive from many main attractions. The hotel group patiently developed this property, and it seamlessly blends into its culture-rich surroundings with hand-cut marble flooring, meticulous craftsmanship, manicured palm and orange trees — seemingly all topped with a lavish smothering of gold. The 50-key hotel has eight categories of rooms, each with a large balcony and either a plunge pool or a soaking tub. Or, if you’d rather, the rooftop pool with its panoramic views of the Aravalli Hills is another dream-like place to unwind with a Raffles signature gin sling after a long day of sightseeing. A splendid hotel for honeymooners, a stay here will have you feeling like royalty while visiting the magnificent state of Rajasthan.

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25 Places to Go in 2025 Spotlight: Turks and Caicos

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Turks and Caicos must be on your radar if you’re looking for a low-key luxury island getaway this year. With new direct flights from Miami, the Caribbean islands will be the place to see and be seen (or not, if you opt for a quiet stay at a villa with a secluded beach).

The collection of 50 small islands has an international feel (they are British Territory, after all). The main island of Providenciales, commonly known as “Provo,” already has a lot of footfall, but if you look over the turquoise ocean, you’ll find intimate cays where the sand is as pure as white snow — and there are little-to-no crowds. And that’s what’s so appealing. It’s a place of juxtaposition where you can blow your annual vacation budget in a week and holiday like Rihanna, or escape to a reasonably priced barefoot hideaway with a book and jaw-dropping ocean views for company.

The new direct United Airlines flight will link Miami with South Caicos, Provo’s oft-overlooked sister island. Launching in February, the bi-weekly flight will cut out the hour-and-a-half by boat ride from Provo, making the island a new flop-and-drop destination for those wanting a Caribbean escape without throngs of tourists.

Known as the fishing capital of the region, the tourism infrastructure o. South Caicos is on the uptick with the opening of one of the islands’ most anticipated new stays for 2025: Salterra Resort & Spa, welcoming guests in February. Coinciding with the launch of the new Miami link, the Marriott Bonvoy Luxury Collection Resorts property will be in good company with two other exceptional resorts on the island, the five-star Sailrock Resort and the more approachable (and affordable) locally-owned South Caicos Ocean & Beach Resort.

South Caicos is a haven for scuba divers. Dive sites Amos’ Wall, Eagle Nest, and The Arch offer the potential for close encounters with hawksbill turtles, roughtail and eagle rays, Caribbean reef and nurse sharks, and schools of colorful fish. With minimal development, the island’s crystal clear waters are calm, with miles of beaches and open space to paddleboard, kayak, or swim out for conch shells.

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25 Places to Go in 2025 Spotlight: Paonia, Colorado

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In Paonia, a town of 1,500 residents in Colorado’s West Elk Mountains, pitching a tent in the high country and gazing up at the stars is a right of passage. The town in 2024 became Colorado’s sixth International Dark Sky Community and DarkSky International’s 17th International Dark Sky Place. Here, you’re isolated from any semblance of big city life — artificial lighting is scarce, and traffic is nonexistent.

The town is also the hub of the West Elks American Viticultural Area (AVA), making it a great place to pair a glass of wine with a stargazing session. This is the highest-elevation wine region in the country, home to 12 wineries. Book a pondside campsite at Big B’s Fruit Co. and experience the best of western Colorado — from stargazing to wine tasting to camping — all in one place. Paonia is about 90-minute drive from Grand Junction Regional Airport and Interstate 70.

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The 15 US Airports With the Fewest Flight Delays in 2024

In 2024, there’s good news for people who hate airport delays (or bad news, if you like hanging out in airport lounges): there were fewer delays at airports around the world.

A new report from Cirium — a data company that collects and analyzes real-time flight data to help airlines and airports make planning decisions — looked at flight data from nearly every major (and not so major) airport around the world. By analyzing approximately 3 million flights per month, it’s able to say what airports have the fewest delays every year.

In 2024, roughly 78.5 percent of flights at major airports around the world departed and arrived on time. It’s an improvement, albeit a small one, over 2023, but a marked jump over 2022, when the rate was 76 percent. Two-and-a-half percent may not sound like a huge difference, but it represents more about 900,000 flights around the world.

The report analyzed which airports around the world will help you avoid this. Photo: Alex Brylov/Shutterstock

The report divides airports into large, medium, and small airports, plus a global category for massive airports that serve more than three global regions. In 2023, the most on-time airport in the world was in the US: Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in Minnesota. But in 2024, the top spot globally went to Riyadh King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. the country has made massive investments in infrastructure and tourism facilities in the last few years, and Saudia, the national airline of the country, topped the list of the most on-time airlines in the world.

Of the top 20 most on-time airports in the world in 2024, nine entries were in the US. Unfortunately, the average length of delay in the US was more than an hour (66.3 minutes, to be exact). The remaining 11 most on-time global airports around the world had an average delay of just 48 minutes.

The most on-time global airports in the world

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For an airport to be considered global, per the Cirium report, it needs to have the capacity to serve at least 23 million flyers per year (meaning the combined number of seats on flights arriving to and departing from the airport needs to total at least 23 million), and must have data available for at least 80 percent of flights. It also needs to fly to at least three regions, such as North America, Asia, and Middle East/Africa. Airports that don’t meet that criteria are instead considered small, medium, or large.

Kansai International Airport, Japan: 79.85 percent on time (avg. delay: 48 mins)Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, AZ: 79.97 percent on time (avg. delay: 61 mins)Tokyo Haneda International Airport, Japan: 79.97 percent on time (avg. delay: 34 mins)Bogota El Dorado International Airport, Colombia: 80.11 percent on time (avg. delay: 54 mins)Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, GA: 80.15 percent on time (avg. delay: 62 mins)Abu Dhabi Zayed International, UAE: 80.32 percent on time (avg. delay: 52 mins)Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, WA: 80.51 percent on time (avg. delay: 52 mins)Philadelphia International Airport, PA: 80.75 percent on time (avg. delay: 77 mins)Los Angeles International, CA: 81.06 percent on time (avg. delay: 65 mins)Copenhagen Airport, Denmark: 81.37 percent on time (avg. delay: 44 mins)Doha Hamad International Airport, Qatar: 81.38 percent on time (avg. delay: 48 mins)Oslo Gardermoen Airport, Norway: 81.91 percent on time (avg. delay: 41 mins)Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, MI: 82.06 percent on time (avg. delay: 72 mins)Washington Dulles International Airport, DC: 82.23 percent on time (avg. delay: 72 mins)Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport, MN: 82.27 percent on time (avg. delay: 68 mins)Santiago Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport, Chile: 82.84 percent on time (avg. delay: 49 mins)Salt Lake City International Airport, UT: 83.8 percent on time (avg. delay: 68 mins)Mexico City Benito Juarez International Airport, Mexico: 84.04 percent on time (avg. delay: 57 mins)Lima Jorge Chavez International Airport, Peru: 84.57 percent on time (avg. delay: 56 mins)Riyadh King Khalid International Airport, Saudi Arabia: 86.65 percent on time (avg. delay: 50 mins)

The most on-time airports in the US

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The airports above represent on-time statistics for the biggest airports in the world. But if you include small, medium, and large airports, the most on-time airport in the US isn’t Salt Lake City International. (In fact, it’s about 3,000 miles away.) Taking into account global, large, medium, and small airports in the US, there are the top spots where you’re least likely to encounter flight delays.

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, MI: 82.06 percent on timeWashington Dulles International Airport, DC: 82.23 percent on timeMinneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, MN: 82.27 percent on timeNew York LaGuardia Airport, NY: 82.39 percent on timeSacramento International Airport, CA: 82.77 percent on timePittsburgh International Airport, PA: 83.49 percent on timeJohn Glenn Columbus International Airport, OH: 83.79 percent on timeSalt Lake City International Airport, UT: 83.8 percent on timeLouisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, KY: 83.9 percent on timeIndianapolis International Airport, IN: 83.93 percent on timeWill Rogers World Airport, OK: 84.31Portland International Airport, OR: 84.86 percent on timeHonolulu International Airport, HI: 85.45 percent on timeBoise Air Terminal, ID: 86.21 percent on timeEllison Onizuka Kona Intl Airport at Keahole, HI: 88.61 percent on time More like thisEpic StaysThe 9 Best Hotels Inside Airports Where You Can Actually Rest