On-Time Report

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Carrier month · June 2024

Southwest Airlines in June 2024

73.7%arrived on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In June 2024, Southwest Airlines (WN) reported 123,817 scheduled domestic flights. 73.7% arrived on time, 0.3% were cancelled and 0.3% diverted.

All reporting carriers together recorded 73.9% on time and 1.3% cancelled that month, so the carrier was level with the combined figure.

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 53%, air carrier 29% and national aviation system 15%.

Every scheduled domestic flight reported by Southwest Airlines in June 2024.

June 2024 against a year earlier, the carrier's year and all carriers

MeasureJun 2024Year earlierWN, 12 months to Jul 2026All carriers, Jun 2024
Arrived on time73.7%—75.5%73.9%
Departed on time70.4%—71.2%73.7%
Cancelled0.3%—0.9%1.3%
Average arrival delay9.9 min—6.8 min11.8 min
Scheduled flights a day4,127—3,80820,371
Scheduled flights123,817—1,389,951611,132

107 airports and 1,728 routes had WN flights that month.

Busiest airports that month

AirportDeparturesOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DEN Denver8,60964.6%16.6 min0.2%
LAS Las Vegas7,15270.9%10.0 min0.1%
MDW Chicago6,83268.3%15.0 min0.2%
BWI Baltimore6,38967.2%14.0 min0.6%
DAL Dallas6,04970.0%13.9 min0.3%
PHX Phoenix5,48772.0%10.6 min0.2%
HOU Houston4,64871.9%11.4 min0.5%
BNA Nashville4,50476.8%8.2 min0.3%
MCO Orlando3,99669.1%15.2 min0.2%
STL St. Louis3,65673.4%9.8 min0.3%
AUS Austin3,27874.4%8.6 min0.2%
SAN San Diego3,01168.3%13.1 min0.5%
OAK Oakland2,99177.5%5.1 min0.2%
ATL Atlanta2,73176.0%8.1 min0.3%
SMF Sacramento2,61377.1%7.6 min0.3%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over
Share of WN flights that arrived on time, by scheduled departure hour (local time at each origin), June 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesAll carriers, Jun 2024Minutes
Air carrier29.0%34.4%502,487
Late-arriving aircraft52.8%41.5%916,001
National Aviation System15.0%17.8%260,481
Extreme weather2.9%6.0%50,958
Security0.3%0.2%4,880
1,734,807 delay minutes on 31,746 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

What share of Southwest Airlines flights were on time in June 2024?

73.7% of 123,817 scheduled domestic flights arrived less than 15 minutes late; all reporting carriers together recorded 73.9% that month.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

June 2023 is outside the 36 months on file, or the carrier did not report that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for June 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for Southwest Airlines · methodology · corrections.