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How Does New Hope-Lambertville Stack Up for Air Fares?
Find out if your airport is a soaring success — or if that's hardly the case.
Not to mention confusing fares, packed planes, cramped cabins, smelly seatmates, testy flight attendants, disgusting seat-back trays, bumpy flights, late landings, dragged-out deplaning, missed connections, baggage delays, lost luggage, and aggravatingly long bus rides to your parked car.
Ugh, indeed.
Think you’ve had it worse than most air travelers? Find out how your local airport stacks up against others across the U.S. when it comes to ticket prices, on-time arrivals and departures, and more.
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Average Air Fares from New Hope-Lambertville, Pennsylvania
A Delta airliner taking off from an airport into a clear blue sky.
According to the government’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics, people flying out of Philadelphia International (PHL) or Pittsburgh International (PIT) or Harrisburg International (MDT) are paying an average round-trip fare of $373.39 and $347.79 and $481.97 respectively.
What do you think? Does that seem high to you? Or maybe lower than you've experienced? Remember, that's the average.
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The average airline ticket price in the State of Pennsylvania during the third quarter of 2018 was $392.04, the government says.
The national average airline ticket price during the quarter was $444.27.
In Pennsylvania, you'll pay an average 12% less than the national average.
| Region | Airport | Avg. Fare |
|---|---|---|
| U.S.A. | — | $444.27 |
| Pennsylvania | — | $392.04 |
| Philadelphia | Philadelphia International | $373.39 |
| Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh International | $347.79 |
| Harrisburg | Harrisburg International | $481.97 |
| Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton | Lehigh Valley International | $319.57 |
| Scranton/Wilkes-Barre | Wilkes Barre Scranton International | $426.06 |
| State College | University Park | $581.57 |
| Latrobe | Arnold Palmer Regional | $101.72 |
| Erie | Erie International/Tom Ridge Field | $423.40 |
| Williamsport | Williamsport Regional | $476.79 |
On-time performance at PHL & PIT & MDT
An aerial view of the airport in Newark, New Jersey.
Now let’s see how your airport rates for getting flights in and out on time. And see if your feeling that the place is ALWAYS running behind schedule is accurate.
Given your ease-of-access to multiple airports, consider booking your next flight from the airport with the best on-time performance. Of the departures from PHL and PIT and MDT last year, 76.8% and 82.8% and 81.7% respectively got off on time, and 20% and 15% and 15.8% respectively were delayed.
Now you know the odds, next time you have a flight to catch.
Where you live, do the airports have some work to do? For comparison, 82.0% of flights at all U.S. airports were on time last year through October and 16.0% were delayed, according to the federal agency.