Asheville Regional in May 2024

72.8%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,123 domestic departures from Asheville Regional (AVL). 72.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 70.6% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so AVL departures were 0.6 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at AVL that month were on time 74.1% of the time (1,124 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 38%, air carrier 26% and national aviation system 22%.

On time 70.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 28.3%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.4%

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

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

Measure	May 2024	Year earlier	AVL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time	72.8%	—	77.0%	73.4%
Arrived on time	70.6%	—	75.1%	72.3%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	2.1%	1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	24.9 min	—	19.9 min	20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day	37	—	27	20,325
Scheduled departures	1,123	—	9,969	609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
G4 Allegiant Air	262	23%	76.7%	10.6 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	229	20%	73.8%	13.9 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	208	19%	69.2%	12.1 min	0.5%
OO SkyWest Airlines	109	10%	70.6%	21.3 min	1.8%
YX Republic Airline	96	9%	83.3%	5.2 min	1.0%
AA American Airlines	82	7%	39.0%	58.3 min	4.9%
MQ Envoy Air	70	6%	52.9%	51.3 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	58	5%	77.6%	28.7 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	9	1%	88.9%	1.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AVL–CLT	Asheville to Charlotte	236	58.1%	25.5 min	1.3%
AVL–ATL	Asheville to Atlanta	198	77.3%	11.6 min	0.0%
AVL–ORD	Asheville to Chicago	109	78.9%	17.2 min	1.8%
AVL–LGA	Asheville to New York	89	78.7%	21.2 min	1.1%
AVL–DCA	Asheville to Washington	62	69.4%	10.2 min	0.0%
AVL–DFW	Asheville to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	53.2%	67.3 min	3.2%
AVL–FLL	Asheville to Fort Lauderdale	53	73.6%	14.8 min	0.0%
AVL–EWR	Asheville to Newark	49	85.7%	3.6 min	0.0%
AVL–DEN	Asheville to Denver	41	61.0%	14.3 min	0.0%
AVL–MSP	Asheville to Minneapolis	40	60.0%	19.3 min	0.0%
AVL–PIE	Asheville to St. Petersburg	34	76.5%	8.0 min	0.0%
AVL–SFB	Asheville to Sanford	31	67.7%	17.7 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), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	25.6%	29.8%	7,096
Late-arriving aircraft	38.1%	43.0%	10,574
National Aviation System	22.2%	20.1%	6,166
Extreme weather	14.0%	7.0%	3,875
Security	0.2%	0.1%	48

27,759 delay minutes on 318 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 May 2024?

72.8% of 1,123 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 70.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 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.