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Airport month · April 2024

Logan International in April 2024

80.6%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 11,591 domestic departures from Logan International (BOS). 80.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.8% reached their destination on time; 1.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so BOS departures were level with the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BOS that month were on time 77.4% of the time (11,597 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 37%, air carrier 32% and national aviation system 25%.

Every scheduled departure from BOS in April 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureApr 2024Year earlierBOS, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time80.6%—74.4%80.5%
Arrived on time79.8%—73.3%80.2%
Cancelled1.0%—2.8%0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)14.5 min—18.3 min14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day386—39319,406
Scheduled departures11,591—143,447582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways3,24928%77.4%5.7 min1.9%
YX Republic Airline2,26920%84.0%1.3 min0.7%
DL Delta Air Lines2,17119%78.7%4.7 min0.3%
AA American Airlines1,35512%83.3%-0.3 min0.7%
UA United Airlines9558%81.9%0.8 min0.7%
NK Spirit Airlines6486%71.1%10.5 min2.6%
WN Southwest Airlines5114%81.2%4.4 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines1922%72.4%7.4 min1.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines941%79.8%5.6 min1.1%
MQ Envoy Air761%76.3%3.1 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air530%92.5%-20.7 min0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines180%55.6%11.3 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
BOS–DCABoston to Washington76580.5%6.9 min1.4%
BOS–LGABoston to New York69486.2%-2.3 min2.7%
BOS–ORDBoston to Chicago53681.5%1.7 min0.6%
BOS–CLTBoston to Charlotte45381.0%0.6 min1.3%
BOS–JFKBoston to New York45081.1%2.7 min2.0%
BOS–MCOBoston to Orlando43272.0%8.0 min1.4%
BOS–PHLBoston to Philadelphia42484.2%2.4 min0.7%
BOS–ATLBoston to Atlanta38979.7%7.4 min0.5%
BOS–MIABoston to Miami35685.7%-8.3 min0.8%
BOS–EWRBoston to Newark34482.8%-0.1 min2.0%
BOS–LAXBoston to Los Angeles34280.4%3.3 min0.0%
BOS–BWIBoston to Baltimore33982.0%3.2 min0.6%

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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2024Minutes
Air carrier31.9%33.6%49,171
Late-arriving aircraft37.4%41.0%57,608
National Aviation System24.8%20.0%38,223
Extreme weather5.6%5.1%8,562
Security0.2%0.2%380
153,944 delay minutes on 2,193 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 April 2024?

80.6% of 11,591 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 2024; 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.