Billings Logan International in October 2023

92.8%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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 264 domestic departures from Billings Logan International (BIL). 92.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.3% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so BIL departures were 9.0 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BIL that month were on time 88.6% of the time (264 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 32%, national aviation system 31% and air carrier 24%.

On time 83.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.7%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from BIL in October 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Oct 2023	Year earlier	BIL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time	92.8%	—	87.4%	83.8%
Arrived on time	83.3%	—	84.7%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	0.6%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	7.9 min	—	11.8 min	11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	9	—	13	19,966
Scheduled departures	264	—	4,642	598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DL Delta Air Lines	62	23%	83.9%	5.6 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	62	23%	77.4%	14.7 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	62	23%	80.6%	-1.3 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	55	21%	90.9%	-8.4 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	23	9%	87.0%	1.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BIL–SLC	Billings to Salt Lake City	86	89.5%	-3.5 min	0.0%
BIL–DEN	Billings to Denver	62	80.6%	-1.3 min	0.0%
BIL–DFW	Billings to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	77.4%	14.7 min	0.0%
BIL–MSP	Billings to Minneapolis	31	80.6%	6.1 min	0.0%
BIL–AZA	Billings to Phoenix	14	85.7%	2.7 min	0.0%
BIL–LAS	Billings to Las Vegas	9	88.9%	-1.3 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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	24.4%	41.3%	764
Late-arriving aircraft	31.9%	40.5%	997
National Aviation System	30.5%	14.4%	955
Extreme weather	13.2%	3.7%	412
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

3,128 delay minutes on 44 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 BIL on time in October 2023?

92.8% of 264 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

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