On-Time Report

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Airport month · October 2023

Austin - Bergstrom International in October 2023

78.8%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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 8,357 domestic departures from Austin - Bergstrom International (AUS). 78.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.9% reached their destination on time; 0.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so AUS departures were 5.0 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at AUS that month were on time 78.7% of the time (8,363 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 54%, air carrier 31% and national aviation system 9%.

Every scheduled departure from AUS in October 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

October 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureOct 2023Year earlierAUS, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time78.8%—74.2%83.8%
Arrived on time80.9%—75.5%84.0%
Cancelled0.2%—1.2%0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)14.3 min—18.4 min11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day279—24519,966
Scheduled departures8,357—89,507598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines3,42741%78.1%5.2 min0.2%
AA American Airlines1,33416%79.4%11.2 min0.3%
DL Delta Air Lines1,04713%91.2%-6.9 min0.1%
UA United Airlines90011%86.0%0.3 min0.1%
MQ Envoy Air7239%79.5%4.0 min0.1%
AS Alaska Airlines2393%83.7%1.8 min0.4%
OO SkyWest Airlines1612%72.7%25.9 min1.2%
NK Spirit Airlines1532%84.3%-4.6 min1.3%
B6 JetBlue Airways1422%66.2%23.6 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air941%76.6%17.2 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air791%87.3%1.1 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines410%73.2%15.7 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
AUS–DENAustin to Denver42078.1%3.1 min0.0%
AUS–DFWAustin to Dallas/Fort Worth41875.8%16.7 min1.2%
AUS–ATLAustin to Atlanta40786.2%-1.5 min0.0%
AUS–LAXAustin to Los Angeles39785.1%-0.3 min0.0%
AUS–LASAustin to Las Vegas34480.8%5.9 min0.0%
AUS–ORDAustin to Chicago30681.4%1.7 min0.0%
AUS–PHXAustin to Phoenix30480.3%8.1 min0.0%
AUS–JFKAustin to New York26578.9%2.2 min0.0%
AUS–BNAAustin to Nashville26179.3%2.5 min0.0%
AUS–MCOAustin to Orlando25278.6%7.1 min0.4%
AUS–DALAustin to Dallas24484.0%-0.6 min0.8%
AUS–MSYAustin to New Orleans22674.3%9.0 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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Oct 2023Minutes
Air carrier31.3%41.3%31,429
Late-arriving aircraft54.1%40.5%54,225
National Aviation System9.3%14.4%9,291
Extreme weather5.3%3.7%5,278
Security0.0%0.2%44
100,267 delay minutes on 1,570 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 AUS on time in October 2023?

78.8% of 8,357 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 2022 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 October 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for AUS · methodology · corrections.