Rick Husband Amarillo International in August 2024

83.0%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 August 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 460 domestic departures from Rick Husband Amarillo International (AMA). 83.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.0% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 75.4% of flights departed on time and 74.7% arrived on time, so AMA departures were 7.6 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in August 2023, the airport had 535 departures with 86.5% leaving on time: a change of −3.5 points, with flights down 14%.

Flights arriving at AMA that month were on time 81.1% of the time (460 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 55%, late-arriving aircraft 27% and national aviation system 16%.

On time 82.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 17.6%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from AMA in August 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Aug 2024	Aug 2023	AMA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Aug 2024
Departed on time	83.0%	86.5%	82.8%	75.4%
Arrived on time	82.0%	85.4%	82.2%	74.7%
Cancelled	0.4%	0.7%	1.7%	2.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.7 min	14.5 min	14.3 min	18.4 min
Scheduled departures a day	15	18	14	20,634
Scheduled departures	460	535	5,005	619,025

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	165	36%	86.7%	-1.6 min	0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	160	35%	81.3%	1.6 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	135	29%	77.0%	14.0 min	1.5%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AMA–DFW	Amarillo to Dallas/Fort Worth	228	88.2%	-2.3 min	0.0%
AMA–DAL	Amarillo to Dallas	107	85.0%	0.0 min	0.0%
AMA–DEN	Amarillo to Denver	62	59.7%	33.8 min	3.2%
AMA–LAS	Amarillo to Las Vegas	31	71.0%	5.9 min	0.0%
AMA–AUS	Amarillo to Austin	18	77.8%	6.7 min	0.0%
AMA–IAH	Amarillo to Houston	10	90.0%	10.3 min	0.0%
AMA–HOU	Amarillo to Houston	4	75.0%	-9.5 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), August 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Aug 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	54.5%	33.8%	3,070
Late-arriving aircraft	26.8%	39.8%	1,511
National Aviation System	15.7%	20.4%	883
Extreme weather	2.2%	5.9%	126
Security	0.7%	0.1%	38

5,628 delay minutes on 81 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 AMA on time in August 2024?

83.0% of 460 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 75.4% and 74.7%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In August 2023, 86.5% of 535 departures left on time and 0.7% were cancelled, against 83.0% and 0.4% in August 2024.

Provenance

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