The chart below shows the average delay in flight departures (in minutes) at different airports in the USA for five different time periods. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart below shows the average delay in flight departures (in minutes) at different airports in the USA for five different time periods.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The chart illustrates the delay in
flight
departures in US airports for
time
periods from 1996 to 2000, from 2001 to 2005, from 2006 to 2010 and from 2011 to 2015 to
Dallas
, New
York
, Chicago and
San
Francisco
. The
delays
have changed over the
period
of
time
from 1996 to 2015. On average, over the
period
of
time
from 1996 to 2015 the most
delays
occured
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occurred
in
flight
departures to New
York
. During the
period
from 2001 to
2005
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,2005
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the
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flight
delays
to New
York
were over thirty
minutes
.
This
is the longest
flight
delays
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among the
flights
to other mentioned cities and among other mentioned periods of
time
. From 1996 to 2000, the most
delays
occured
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occurred
in
flights
to Chicago and New
York
(over thirty
minutes
). The least
delays
occured
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occurred
in
flights
to
Dallas
(under twenty
minutes
) and to
San
Francisco
(under ten
minutes
). During the
period
of
time
from 2001 to 2005, the delay times increased
in
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all
flights
except
fore
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for
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the
flights
to Chicago. Delay times in
flights
to Chicago decreased to just above ten
minutes
. During the
period
of
time
from 2006 to 2010, the longest
delays
were in the
flights
to New
York
and
San
Francisco
. As
such
,
delays
in
flights
to
San
Francisco
increased to over twenty
minutes
. The
delays
to
Dallas
and Chicago decreased. During the
last
period
of
time
from 2011 to 2015 the longest
delays
occured
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occurred
in
flights
to New
York
, and
to
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San
Francisco
as well (over 20
minutes
each). The waiting
time
in
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flights
to
Dallas
dropped again and
delays
in
flights
to Chicago increased to around fifteen
minutes
.
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Basic structure: Use less body paragraphs.
Common mistake: Your writing should be 150-250 words.
Basic structure: Change the third paragraph.
Vocabulary: Replace the words flight, time, dallas, york, san, francisco, delays, period, minutes, flights with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Only 6 basic words for charts were used.
Vocabulary: The word "decreased" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the third paragraph.

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