On-Time Report

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Airport month · January 2024

Austin - Bergstrom International in January 2024

72.3%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 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 6,692 domestic departures from Austin - Bergstrom International (AUS). 72.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 72.1% reached their destination on time; 3.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so AUS departures were 1.7 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at AUS that month were on time 69.6% of the time (6,690 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 51%, air carrier 30% and national aviation system 15%.

Every scheduled departure from AUS in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureJan 2024Year earlierAUS, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time72.3%—74.2%74.0%
Arrived on time72.1%—75.5%72.9%
Cancelled3.3%—1.2%3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)19.4 min—18.4 min18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day223—24518,242
Scheduled departures6,692—89,507547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines2,94644%73.5%6.6 min2.9%
AA American Airlines1,19818%70.5%27.0 min1.4%
DL Delta Air Lines72211%83.1%0.9 min0.6%
UA United Airlines71711%75.2%10.4 min6.3%
MQ Envoy Air4357%66.0%15.2 min1.8%
AS Alaska Airlines2093%48.8%17.1 min26.3%
OO SkyWest Airlines1412%53.2%31.8 min1.4%
B6 JetBlue Airways941%62.8%24.4 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines761%65.8%12.9 min1.3%
G4 Allegiant Air681%77.9%-3.0 min5.9%
9E Endeavor Air471%55.3%36.9 min2.1%
F9 Frontier Airlines140%71.4%13.1 min7.1%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
AUS–DFWAustin to Dallas/Fort Worth37967.5%30.7 min1.8%
AUS–DENAustin to Denver34477.3%10.5 min3.8%
AUS–PHXAustin to Phoenix30269.9%25.3 min0.7%
AUS–LAXAustin to Los Angeles29873.8%10.2 min2.0%
AUS–ATLAustin to Atlanta29783.2%1.3 min1.0%
AUS–LASAustin to Las Vegas26366.5%15.5 min1.1%
AUS–MCOAustin to Orlando24872.2%8.1 min1.6%
AUS–ORDAustin to Chicago22774.9%11.7 min4.0%
AUS–DALAustin to Dallas22477.7%2.0 min4.5%
AUS–JFKAustin to New York20373.4%10.1 min1.0%
AUS–BNAAustin to Nashville18770.1%8.6 min6.4%
AUS–MSYAustin to New Orleans16771.3%12.7 min0.6%

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 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2024Minutes
Air carrier29.5%32.6%34,884
Late-arriving aircraft51.1%39.0%60,352
National Aviation System14.6%17.9%17,271
Extreme weather4.4%10.3%5,227
Security0.4%0.2%461
118,195 delay minutes on 1,633 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 January 2024?

72.3% of 6,692 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 72.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 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 January 2024; 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.