On-Time Report

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Airport month · April 2024

Lehigh Valley International in April 2024

83.5%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 364 domestic departures from Lehigh Valley International (ABE). 83.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.5% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so ABE departures were 3.0 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at ABE that month were on time 80.8% of the time (364 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 52%, late-arriving aircraft 29% and national aviation system 15%.

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

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

MeasureApr 2024Year earlierABE, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time83.5%—79.2%80.5%
Arrived on time83.5%—77.9%80.2%
Cancelled0.5%—2.0%0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)24.0 min—22.7 min14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day12—919,406
Scheduled departures364—3,375582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
G4 Allegiant Air12835%83.6%4.2 min0.8%
OH PSA Airlines9025%77.8%28.6 min1.1%
9E Endeavor Air8624%88.4%-1.0 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines6016%85.0%-2.9 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
ABE–CLTAllentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Charlotte9077.8%28.6 min1.1%
ABE–ATLAllentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Atlanta8688.4%-1.0 min0.0%
ABE–ORDAllentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Chicago6085.0%-2.9 min0.0%
ABE–SFBAllentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Sanford4987.8%8.7 min2.0%
ABE–PIEAllentown/Bethlehem/Easton to St. Petersburg1888.9%-4.2 min0.0%
ABE–PGDAllentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Punta Gorda1172.7%29.6 min0.0%
ABE–MLBAllentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Melbourne977.8%-24.1 min0.0%
ABE–MYRAllentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Myrtle Beach977.8%5.6 min0.0%
ABE–BNAAllentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Nashville875.0%-5.7 min0.0%
ABE–DENAllentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Denver887.5%4.3 min0.0%
ABE–FLLAllentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Fort Lauderdale887.5%-14.5 min0.0%
ABE–SRQAllentown/Bethlehem/Easton to Sarasota/Bradenton875.0%19.8 min0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over
Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2024Minutes
Air carrier52.2%33.6%4,242
Late-arriving aircraft29.0%41.0%2,357
National Aviation System15.0%20.0%1,218
Extreme weather3.8%5.1%310
Security0.0%0.2%0
8,127 delay minutes on 57 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

How many flights left ABE on time in April 2024?

83.5% of 364 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 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.