On-Time Report

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Airport month · October 2025

Patrick Leahy Burlington International in October 2025

79.7%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 670 domestic departures from Patrick Leahy Burlington International (BTV). 79.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 74.2% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so BTV departures were level with the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 904 departures with 88.4% leaving on time: a change of −8.7 points, with flights down 26%.

Flights arriving at BTV that month were on time 77.3% of the time (670 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 45%, late-arriving aircraft 29% and national aviation system 24%.

Every scheduled departure from BTV in October 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

October 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureOct 2025Oct 2024BTV, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time79.7%88.4%76.9%80.0%
Arrived on time74.2%86.4%71.8%79.1%
Cancelled0.3%0.1%2.9%0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)19.7 min11.3 min24.0 min13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day22301720,195
Scheduled departures6709046,084605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OH PSA Airlines19629%78.6%9.7 min0.5%
YX Republic Airline15223%76.3%10.5 min0.0%
UA United Airlines9314%81.7%2.6 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines9013%60.0%40.4 min0.0%
AA American Airlines8913%64.0%20.5 min1.1%
DL Delta Air Lines365%83.3%-3.2 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air112%63.6%7.5 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines30%100.0%-7.0 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
BTV–ORDBurlington to Chicago16368.7%24.0 min0.0%
BTV–DCABurlington to Washington11673.3%17.8 min0.9%
BTV–EWRBurlington to Newark10373.8%11.0 min0.0%
BTV–PHLBurlington to Philadelphia8770.1%15.4 min1.1%
BTV–CLTBurlington to Charlotte8379.5%3.6 min0.0%
BTV–IADBurlington to Washington4080.0%8.8 min0.0%
BTV–ATLBurlington to Atlanta3180.6%0.2 min0.0%
BTV–DENBurlington to Denver3180.6%1.2 min0.0%
BTV–LGABurlington to New York887.5%18.3 min0.0%
BTV–MSPBurlington to Minneapolis4100.0%-25.5 min0.0%
BTV–MCOBurlington to Orlando3100.0%-7.0 min0.0%
BTV–DTWBurlington to Detroit1100.0%-20.0 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), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Oct 2025Minutes
Air carrier45.4%34.0%6,257
Late-arriving aircraft29.3%39.7%4,039
National Aviation System24.2%22.9%3,331
Extreme weather1.0%3.3%144
Security0.0%0.1%0
13,771 delay minutes on 170 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 BTV on time in October 2025?

79.7% of 670 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 74.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024, 88.4% of 904 departures left on time and 0.1% were cancelled, against 79.7% and 0.3% in October 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for October 2025; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for BTV · methodology · corrections.