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Airport month · January 2025

Albuquerque International Sunport in January 2025

85.7%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,790 domestic departures from Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ). 85.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.9% reached their destination on time; 1.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so ABQ departures were 6.4 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 1,808 departures with 80.7% leaving on time: a change of +5.0 points, with flights down 1%.

Flights arriving at ABQ that month were on time 82.3% of the time (1,789 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 34%, air carrier 32% and national aviation system 27%.

Every scheduled departure from ABQ in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureJan 2025Jan 2024ABQ, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time85.7%80.7%81.2%79.3%
Arrived on time85.9%79.7%82.5%78.6%
Cancelled1.5%1.8%0.9%3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)9.4 min13.4 min13.6 min14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day60606817,992
Scheduled departures1,7901,80824,621539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines85148%85.9%-2.7 min1.4%
OO SkyWest Airlines44225%89.8%-6.1 min0.0%
AA American Airlines20311%81.8%-1.8 min5.4%
UA United Airlines965%84.4%7.5 min2.1%
DL Delta Air Lines774%89.6%-0.1 min2.6%
MQ Envoy Air674%80.6%9.0 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines362%69.4%5.4 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines181%83.3%3.6 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
ABQ–PHXAlbuquerque to Phoenix28285.8%-1.4 min0.0%
ABQ–DENAlbuquerque to Denver22786.3%1.2 min0.4%
ABQ–DFWAlbuquerque to Dallas/Fort Worth19379.8%2.7 min5.7%
ABQ–LAXAlbuquerque to Los Angeles16591.5%-8.5 min0.0%
ABQ–LASAlbuquerque to Las Vegas14887.2%-2.1 min1.4%
ABQ–DALAlbuquerque to Dallas13286.4%-1.2 min3.8%
ABQ–SLCAlbuquerque to Salt Lake City8895.5%-10.9 min0.0%
ABQ–ATLAlbuquerque to Atlanta7288.9%0.8 min2.8%
ABQ–HOUAlbuquerque to Houston6686.4%-4.1 min3.0%
ABQ–SFOAlbuquerque to San Francisco5691.1%-15.4 min0.0%
ABQ–ORDAlbuquerque to Chicago5174.5%7.4 min0.0%
ABQ–AUSAlbuquerque to Austin4381.4%3.6 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), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2025Minutes
Air carrier31.8%36.2%4,612
Late-arriving aircraft34.4%34.7%4,990
National Aviation System27.0%19.9%3,911
Extreme weather6.7%9.1%976
Security0.0%0.2%0
14,489 delay minutes on 219 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 2025?

85.7% of 1,790 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 80.7% of 1,808 departures left on time and 1.8% were cancelled, against 85.7% and 1.5% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; 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.