Asheville Regional in April 2024

81.2%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 1,000 domestic departures from Asheville Regional (AVL). 81.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.5% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so AVL departures were 0.7 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at AVL that month were on time 83.0% of the time (1,001 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 41%, air carrier 30% and national aviation system 24%.

On time 79.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 20.1%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Apr 2024	Year earlier	AVL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time	81.2%	—	77.0%	80.5%
Arrived on time	79.5%	—	75.1%	80.2%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	2.1%	0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.2 min	—	19.9 min	14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	33	—	27	19,406
Scheduled departures	1,000	—	9,969	582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
G4 Allegiant Air	238	24%	85.3%	10.3 min	0.4%
OH PSA Airlines	221	22%	76.5%	5.4 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	215	22%	77.2%	6.6 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	120	12%	87.5%	-7.6 min	0.8%
MQ Envoy Air	85	9%	61.2%	18.0 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	61	6%	85.2%	-5.5 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	49	5%	89.8%	-4.8 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	11	1%	36.4%	70.3 min	9.1%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AVL–CLT	Asheville to Charlotte	221	70.6%	9.3 min	0.0%
AVL–ATL	Asheville to Atlanta	193	80.3%	4.1 min	0.0%
AVL–ORD	Asheville to Chicago	90	86.7%	-9.2 min	0.0%
AVL–LGA	Asheville to New York	79	88.6%	-3.9 min	0.0%
AVL–DCA	Asheville to Washington	57	75.4%	9.1 min	0.0%
AVL–FLL	Asheville to Fort Lauderdale	52	80.8%	34.8 min	0.0%
AVL–DFW	Asheville to Dallas/Fort Worth	40	67.5%	21.8 min	2.5%
AVL–DEN	Asheville to Denver	39	92.3%	-4.1 min	0.0%
AVL–EWR	Asheville to Newark	38	84.2%	-7.2 min	2.6%
AVL–PIE	Asheville to St. Petersburg	31	77.4%	-3.9 min	0.0%
AVL–MSP	Asheville to Minneapolis	30	63.3%	17.7 min	0.0%
AVL–SFB	Asheville to Sanford	27	88.9%	14.9 min	0.0%

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 category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	29.5%	33.6%	4,065
Late-arriving aircraft	40.6%	41.0%	5,600
National Aviation System	24.3%	20.0%	3,347
Extreme weather	5.6%	5.1%	769
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

13,781 delay minutes on 201 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 April 2024?

81.2% of 1,000 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.5% 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 AVL · methodology · corrections.