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Airport month · May 2024

Nantucket Memorial in May 2024

75.6%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 127 domestic departures from Nantucket Memorial (ACK). 75.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 73.2% reached their destination on time; 4.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so ACK departures were 2.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at ACK that month were on time 79.5% of the time (127 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 66%, national aviation system 26% and air carrier 8%.

Every scheduled departure from ACK in May 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureMay 2024Year earlierACK, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time75.6%—73.0%73.4%
Arrived on time73.2%—69.6%72.3%
Cancelled4.7%—5.3%1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)23.0 min—20.9 min20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day4—520,325
Scheduled departures127—1,690609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways9776%73.2%10.4 min5.2%
YX Republic Airline2721%74.1%21.3 min3.7%
OO SkyWest Airlines32%66.7%26.3 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
ACK–LGANantucket to New York4175.6%17.6 min4.9%
ACK–JFKNantucket to New York3271.9%22.1 min3.1%
ACK–BOSNantucket to Boston1782.4%2.0 min5.9%
ACK–DCANantucket to Washington1764.7%9.1 min5.9%
ACK–HPNNantucket to White Plains1770.6%-3.3 min5.9%
ACK–ORDNantucket to Chicago366.7%26.3 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), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, May 2024Minutes
Air carrier8.4%29.8%226
Late-arriving aircraft65.6%43.0%1,770
National Aviation System26.1%20.1%704
Extreme weather0.0%7.0%0
Security0.0%0.1%0
2,700 delay minutes on 27 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 ACK on time in May 2024?

75.6% of 127 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 73.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for ACK · methodology · corrections.