On-Time Report

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Airport month · March 2024

Austin - Bergstrom International in March 2024

75.8%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 7,154 domestic departures from Austin - Bergstrom International (AUS). 75.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 77.0% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so AUS departures were 2.7 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at AUS that month were on time 75.5% of the time (7,154 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 48%, air carrier 26% and national aviation system 20%.

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

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

MeasureMar 2024Year earlierAUS, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time75.8%—74.2%78.5%
Arrived on time77.0%—75.5%78.3%
Cancelled0.7%—1.2%0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)16.5 min—18.4 min15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day239—24519,726
Scheduled departures7,154—89,507591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines3,26246%76.1%7.2 min0.8%
AA American Airlines1,15216%72.9%15.8 min1.1%
DL Delta Air Lines90313%85.7%1.0 min0.1%
UA United Airlines84912%84.5%1.6 min0.4%
AS Alaska Airlines2443%75.8%2.8 min0.4%
MQ Envoy Air1702%79.4%5.9 min1.2%
NK Spirit Airlines1061%56.6%29.7 min1.9%
G4 Allegiant Air1031%66.0%25.8 min0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways991%54.5%28.3 min1.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines801%56.3%63.0 min1.3%
9E Endeavor Air781%82.1%2.6 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines381%78.9%-1.1 min2.6%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
AUS–DFWAustin to Dallas/Fort Worth46669.3%30.6 min1.7%
AUS–DENAustin to Denver40582.7%-1.5 min2.2%
AUS–ATLAustin to Atlanta37187.6%-1.2 min0.0%
AUS–LAXAustin to Los Angeles36277.9%4.5 min0.6%
AUS–PHXAustin to Phoenix31276.6%14.7 min0.0%
AUS–LASAustin to Las Vegas30872.7%14.5 min0.3%
AUS–MCOAustin to Orlando26969.9%15.3 min3.0%
AUS–ORDAustin to Chicago25087.6%2.5 min0.0%
AUS–DALAustin to Dallas22578.2%5.5 min1.3%
AUS–JFKAustin to New York20472.1%9.3 min0.0%
AUS–IAHAustin to Houston19483.0%-1.3 min0.5%
AUS–BNAAustin to Nashville18774.3%8.1 min0.5%

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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Mar 2024Minutes
Air carrier26.4%32.1%27,629
Late-arriving aircraft47.5%42.1%49,674
National Aviation System20.1%21.4%20,983
Extreme weather5.7%4.2%5,918
Security0.3%0.2%283
104,487 delay minutes on 1,573 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 March 2024?

75.8% of 7,154 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 77.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.