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Airport month · January 2024

Albuquerque International Sunport in January 2024

80.7%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 1,808 domestic departures from Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ). 80.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.7% reached their destination on time; 1.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so ABQ departures were 6.7 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at ABQ that month were on time 76.9% of the time (1,807 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 56%, air carrier 21% and national aviation system 17%.

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

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

MeasureJan 2024Year earlierABQ, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time80.7%—81.2%74.0%
Arrived on time79.7%—82.5%72.9%
Cancelled1.8%—0.9%3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)13.4 min—13.6 min18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day60—6818,242
Scheduled departures1,808—24,621547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines89750%80.3%3.9 min2.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines33118%85.5%-0.9 min0.3%
AA American Airlines25014%67.2%19.7 min2.4%
UA United Airlines1277%80.3%1.8 min3.1%
DL Delta Air Lines1096%92.7%-6.1 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air493%79.6%5.3 min4.1%
AS Alaska Airlines241%45.8%32.6 min8.3%
NK Spirit Airlines211%81.0%2.4 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
ABQ–PHXAlbuquerque to Phoenix22977.3%6.0 min0.9%
ABQ–DENAlbuquerque to Denver21179.6%-2.3 min5.2%
ABQ–DFWAlbuquerque to Dallas/Fort Worth18667.2%18.9 min3.2%
ABQ–LAXAlbuquerque to Los Angeles17692.6%-1.9 min0.0%
ABQ–LASAlbuquerque to Las Vegas15081.3%3.1 min0.7%
ABQ–DALAlbuquerque to Dallas14584.8%2.1 min3.4%
ABQ–SLCAlbuquerque to Salt Lake City8886.4%-6.4 min0.0%
ABQ–AUSAlbuquerque to Austin7673.7%6.8 min2.6%
ABQ–HOUAlbuquerque to Houston7485.1%2.8 min1.4%
ABQ–ATLAlbuquerque to Atlanta7190.1%-4.5 min0.0%
ABQ–SFOAlbuquerque to San Francisco6188.5%-3.0 min0.0%
ABQ–ORDAlbuquerque to Chicago5962.7%20.9 min1.7%

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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2024Minutes
Air carrier21.0%32.6%4,721
Late-arriving aircraft55.9%39.0%12,551
National Aviation System17.3%17.9%3,891
Extreme weather5.7%10.3%1,288
Security0.0%0.2%0
22,451 delay minutes on 333 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 ABQ on time in January 2024?

80.7% of 1,808 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.7% 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 ABQ · methodology · corrections.