Mesa Gateway in September 2023

86.7%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 September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 293 domestic departures from Mesa Gateway (AZA). 86.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.4% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so AZA departures were 6.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at AZA that month were on time 77.5% of the time (293 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 64%, late-arriving aircraft 28% and national aviation system 6%.

On time 87.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.3%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from AZA in September 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	AZA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	86.7%	—	81.8%	80.5%
Arrived on time	87.4%	—	80.8%	80.1%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	0.3%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.1 min	—	13.6 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	10	—	17	18,978
Scheduled departures	293	—	6,301	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
G4 Allegiant Air	293	100%	87.4%	1.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AZA–PVU	Phoenix to Provo	28	60.7%	77.3 min	0.0%
AZA–FAR	Phoenix to Fargo	17	88.2%	-7.0 min	0.0%
AZA–IDA	Phoenix to Idaho Falls	17	94.1%	-3.3 min	0.0%
AZA–FSD	Phoenix to Sioux Falls	14	92.9%	-9.1 min	0.0%
AZA–GRR	Phoenix to Grand Rapids	14	71.4%	0.6 min	0.0%
AZA–BIS	Phoenix to Bismarck/Mandan	13	92.3%	-5.1 min	0.0%
AZA–CID	Phoenix to Cedar Rapids/Iowa City	12	91.7%	-17.5 min	0.0%
AZA–RFD	Phoenix to Rockford	12	100.0%	-13.7 min	0.0%
AZA–SGF	Phoenix to Springfield	12	83.3%	2.3 min	0.0%
AZA–BZN	Phoenix to Bozeman	10	90.0%	-3.8 min	0.0%
AZA–ATW	Phoenix to Appleton	9	77.8%	-2.2 min	0.0%
AZA–CVG	Phoenix to Cincinnati	9	100.0%	-8.9 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), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	64.1%	36.4%	1,911
Late-arriving aircraft	28.1%	38.3%	836
National Aviation System	6.3%	19.9%	189
Extreme weather	1.5%	5.1%	44
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

2,980 delay minutes on 36 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 AZA on time in September 2023?

86.7% of 293 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

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