Lehigh Valley International in January 2024

79.4%departed 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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 349 domestic departures from Lehigh Valley International (ABE). 79.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 74.5% reached their destination on time; 3.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so ABE departures were 5.4 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at ABE that month were on time 79.1% of the time (349 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 37%, late-arriving aircraft 35% and extreme weather 15%.

On time 74.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 21.5%
Cancelled 3.2%
Diverted 0.9%

Every scheduled departure from ABE in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	ABE, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	79.4%	—	79.2%	74.0%
Arrived on time	74.5%	—	77.9%	72.9%
Cancelled	3.2%	—	2.0%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	25.4 min	—	22.7 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	12	—	9	18,242
Scheduled departures	349	—	3,375	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
G4 Allegiant Air	138	40%	80.4%	11.7 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	92	26%	73.9%	10.2 min	4.3%
9E Endeavor Air	80	23%	68.8%	14.6 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	39	11%	66.7%	10.9 min	17.9%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
ABE–CLT	Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Charlotte	92	73.9%	10.2 min	4.3%
ABE–ATL	Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Atlanta	80	68.8%	14.6 min	0.0%
ABE–SFB	Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Sanford	50	84.0%	31.2 min	0.0%
ABE–ORD	Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Chicago	39	66.7%	10.9 min	17.9%
ABE–PIE	Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton to St. Petersburg	17	76.5%	24.1 min	0.0%
ABE–PGD	Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Punta Gorda	16	75.0%	-5.9 min	0.0%
ABE–FLL	Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Fort Lauderdale	11	63.6%	1.3 min	0.0%
ABE–BNA	Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Nashville	9	88.9%	-1.2 min	0.0%
ABE–MLB	Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Melbourne	9	88.9%	-13.0 min	0.0%
ABE–MYR	Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Myrtle Beach	9	77.8%	-4.1 min	0.0%
ABE–SRQ	Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Sarasota/Bradenton	9	77.8%	-7.3 min	0.0%
ABE–DEN	Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Denver	8	87.5%	-5.7 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	36.6%	32.6%	3,134
Late-arriving aircraft	35.3%	39.0%	3,020
National Aviation System	13.0%	17.9%	1,113
Extreme weather	14.9%	10.3%	1,273
Security	0.2%	0.2%	16

8,556 delay minutes on 75 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left ABE on time in January 2024?

79.4% of 349 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 74.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 2023 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

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