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Airport month · April 2024

Ted Stevens Anchorage International in April 2024

82.8%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 1,322 domestic departures from Ted Stevens Anchorage International (ANC). 82.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.4% reached their destination on time; 1.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so ANC departures were 2.3 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at ANC that month were on time 76.8% of the time (1,323 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 42%, late-arriving aircraft 39% and national aviation system 12%.

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

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

MeasureApr 2024Year earlierANC, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time82.8%—82.7%80.5%
Arrived on time83.4%—83.5%80.2%
Cancelled1.3%—1.1%0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)10.1 min—11.7 min14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day44—5519,406
Scheduled departures1,322—20,008582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
AS Alaska Airlines1,09283%83.7%-1.8 min1.6%
DL Delta Air Lines14711%84.4%-2.5 min0.0%
UA United Airlines534%84.9%-10.8 min0.0%
AA American Airlines302%66.7%4.1 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
ANC–SEAAnchorage to Seattle57086.1%-5.2 min0.4%
ANC–FAIAnchorage to Fairbanks10178.2%3.1 min3.0%
ANC–JNUAnchorage to Juneau9087.8%-6.3 min0.0%
ANC–BETAnchorage to Bethel6081.7%3.1 min1.7%
ANC–ADQAnchorage to Kodiak5882.8%-1.9 min3.4%
ANC–SCCAnchorage to Deadhorse4877.1%5.9 min4.2%
ANC–ORDAnchorage to Chicago4276.2%-3.1 min0.0%
ANC–BRWAnchorage to Barrow3076.7%2.9 min0.0%
ANC–CDVAnchorage to Cordova3080.0%10.9 min0.0%
ANC–DENAnchorage to Denver3086.7%-9.0 min0.0%
ANC–DFWAnchorage to Dallas/Fort Worth3066.7%4.1 min0.0%
ANC–HNLAnchorage to Honolulu3093.3%-16.1 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 carrier42.1%33.6%4,694
Late-arriving aircraft39.2%41.0%4,370
National Aviation System11.9%20.0%1,322
Extreme weather6.8%5.1%761
Security0.0%0.2%0
11,147 delay minutes on 200 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 ANC on time in April 2024?

82.8% of 1,322 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.4% 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 ANC · methodology · corrections.