On-Time Report

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Airport month · January 2024

Billings Logan International in January 2024

81.3%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 278 domestic departures from Billings Logan International (BIL). 81.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 74.8% reached their destination on time; 1.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so BIL departures were 7.3 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BIL that month were on time 78.3% of the time (277 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 32%, late-arriving aircraft 26% and extreme weather 22%.

Every scheduled departure from BIL in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureJan 2024Year earlierBIL, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time81.3%—87.4%74.0%
Arrived on time74.8%—84.7%72.9%
Cancelled1.4%—0.6%3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)15.6 min—11.8 min18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day9—1318,242
Scheduled departures278—4,642547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MQ Envoy Air7025%65.7%22.0 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines6222%83.9%6.4 min0.0%
UA United Airlines6222%74.2%12.4 min3.2%
OO SkyWest Airlines5620%82.1%7.8 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air2810%64.3%24.6 min7.1%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
BIL–SLCBillings to Salt Lake City8783.9%8.6 min0.0%
BIL–DENBillings to Denver6274.2%12.4 min3.2%
BIL–DFWBillings to Dallas/Fort Worth3966.7%21.4 min0.0%
BIL–MSPBillings to Minneapolis3180.6%2.9 min0.0%
BIL–PHXBillings to Phoenix3164.5%22.7 min0.0%
BIL–AZABillings to Phoenix1968.4%26.2 min5.3%
BIL–LASBillings to Las Vegas955.6%21.0 min11.1%

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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2024Minutes
Air carrier20.5%32.6%1,150
Late-arriving aircraft25.6%39.0%1,441
National Aviation System32.0%17.9%1,798
Extreme weather21.9%10.3%1,234
Security0.0%0.2%0
5,623 delay minutes on 66 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left BIL on time in January 2024?

81.3% of 278 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 74.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 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 January 2024; 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.