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Airport month · November 2023

Logan International in November 2023

85.9%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 November 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 11,142 domestic departures from Logan International (BOS). 85.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.7% reached their destination on time; 0.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 86.0% of flights departed on time and 86.2% arrived on time, so BOS departures were level with the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BOS that month were on time 85.3% of the time (11,139 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 49%, late-arriving aircraft 31% and national aviation system 19%.

Every scheduled departure from BOS in November 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureNov 2023Year earlierBOS, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Nov 2023
Departed on time85.9%—74.4%86.0%
Arrived on time84.7%—73.3%86.2%
Cancelled0.1%—2.8%0.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)10.0 min—18.3 min9.4 min
Scheduled departures a day371—39318,793
Scheduled departures11,142—143,447563,777

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways3,39530%79.2%3.5 min0.1%
DL Delta Air Lines2,11519%87.0%-4.2 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline1,87817%93.6%-10.3 min0.0%
AA American Airlines1,29412%87.4%-0.9 min0.0%
UA United Airlines9268%91.6%-7.7 min0.2%
WN Southwest Airlines5195%84.4%-0.4 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines4634%63.7%16.3 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines1922%80.2%-1.3 min0.5%
MQ Envoy Air1411%77.3%15.9 min2.8%
OO SkyWest Airlines1161%86.2%-3.5 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines460%76.1%4.3 min2.2%
G4 Allegiant Air400%92.5%-11.5 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
BOS–DCABoston to Washington72290.9%-5.8 min0.0%
BOS–LGABoston to New York67690.8%-9.0 min0.0%
BOS–JFKBoston to New York51888.8%-1.9 min0.0%
BOS–ORDBoston to Chicago47084.7%1.8 min0.6%
BOS–MCOBoston to Orlando46775.8%5.3 min0.0%
BOS–CLTBoston to Charlotte40285.3%-1.2 min0.0%
BOS–ATLBoston to Atlanta39689.6%-8.1 min0.0%
BOS–PHLBoston to Philadelphia35587.3%-2.5 min0.3%
BOS–BWIBoston to Baltimore35388.7%-3.0 min0.0%
BOS–SFOBoston to San Francisco34678.9%-0.6 min0.0%
BOS–LAXBoston to Los Angeles33287.0%-5.2 min0.3%
BOS–MIABoston to Miami32685.6%-4.8 min0.0%

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), November 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Nov 2023Minutes
Air carrier49.1%42.5%48,815
Late-arriving aircraft30.8%37.3%30,604
National Aviation System18.6%16.2%18,457
Extreme weather1.4%3.7%1,384
Security0.2%0.3%151
99,411 delay minutes on 1,678 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 BOS on time in November 2023?

85.9% of 11,142 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 86.0% and 86.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

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