Asheville Regional in December 2023

84.6%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 December 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 956 domestic departures from Asheville Regional (AVL). 84.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.5% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.1% of flights departed on time and 83.8% arrived on time, so AVL departures were 1.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at AVL that month were on time 82.5% of the time (956 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 43%, national aviation system 27% and air carrier 26%.

On time 82.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.9%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from AVL in December 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Dec 2023	Year earlier	AVL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2023
Departed on time	84.6%	—	77.0%	83.1%
Arrived on time	82.5%	—	75.1%	83.8%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	2.1%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.9 min	—	19.9 min	11.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	32	—	27	19,013
Scheduled departures	956	—	9,969	570,394

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
G4 Allegiant Air	280	29%	78.2%	7.9 min	0.7%
OH PSA Airlines	238	25%	81.9%	-0.3 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	158	17%	90.5%	-1.7 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	82	9%	82.9%	-2.8 min	1.2%
YX Republic Airline	78	8%	93.6%	-14.3 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	70	7%	87.1%	-7.2 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	30	3%	63.3%	6.6 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	20	2%	55.0%	16.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AVL–CLT	Asheville to Charlotte	196	81.6%	-1.6 min	0.0%
AVL–ATL	Asheville to Atlanta	181	90.6%	-1.6 min	0.0%
AVL–LGA	Asheville to New York	81	82.7%	-1.4 min	1.2%
AVL–ORD	Asheville to Chicago	60	88.3%	-8.5 min	0.0%
AVL–FLL	Asheville to Fort Lauderdale	56	67.9%	27.3 min	1.8%
AVL–SFB	Asheville to Sanford	54	75.9%	4.6 min	0.0%
AVL–DCA	Asheville to Washington	47	68.1%	20.1 min	0.0%
AVL–PIE	Asheville to St. Petersburg	47	78.7%	4.1 min	0.0%
AVL–DFW	Asheville to Dallas/Fort Worth	45	73.3%	-4.1 min	0.0%
AVL–EWR	Asheville to Newark	41	95.1%	-15.5 min	0.0%
AVL–DEN	Asheville to Denver	40	87.5%	-10.6 min	0.0%
AVL–PGD	Asheville to Punta Gorda	17	94.1%	3.2 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), December 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Dec 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	25.5%	37.1%	2,484
Late-arriving aircraft	43.4%	38.8%	4,229
National Aviation System	26.7%	17.6%	2,597
Extreme weather	4.3%	6.2%	416
Security	0.2%	0.3%	17

9,743 delay minutes on 162 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 AVL on time in December 2023?

84.6% of 956 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.1% and 83.8%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

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