Buffalo Niagara International in March 2024

82.4%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,838 domestic departures from Buffalo Niagara International (BUF). 82.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.0% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so BUF departures were 3.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BUF that month were on time 77.6% of the time (1,839 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 47%, national aviation system 29% and air carrier 21%.

On time 81.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.2%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.1%

Every scheduled departure from BUF in March 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	BUF, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	82.4%	—	75.6%	78.5%
Arrived on time	81.0%	—	75.5%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	2.6%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.6 min	—	18.8 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	61	—	57	19,726
Scheduled departures	1,838	—	20,726	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	499	27%	76.2%	6.8 min	1.4%
YX Republic Airline	342	19%	88.3%	0.5 min	0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways	275	15%	81.1%	-0.3 min	0.7%
DL Delta Air Lines	197	11%	84.8%	-2.6 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	124	7%	81.5%	2.0 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	117	6%	87.2%	-6.9 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	108	6%	57.4%	40.3 min	3.7%
OO SkyWest Airlines	86	5%	86.0%	-4.6 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	84	5%	85.7%	-2.0 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	5	0%	100.0%	-25.8 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	1	0%	100.0%	-25.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BUF–JFK	Buffalo to New York	244	84.8%	-0.9 min	0.8%
BUF–MCO	Buffalo to Orlando	194	73.2%	11.9 min	1.5%
BUF–LGA	Buffalo to New York	161	86.3%	-2.3 min	0.0%
BUF–BWI	Buffalo to Baltimore	139	81.3%	2.4 min	0.0%
BUF–ORD	Buffalo to Chicago	138	87.7%	-2.1 min	0.0%
BUF–DTW	Buffalo to Detroit	112	87.5%	-5.8 min	0.0%
BUF–TPA	Buffalo to Tampa	110	70.9%	23.7 min	2.7%
BUF–CLT	Buffalo to Charlotte	93	79.6%	7.9 min	0.0%
BUF–ATL	Buffalo to Atlanta	91	81.3%	-0.5 min	0.0%
BUF–DCA	Buffalo to Washington	88	89.8%	-3.5 min	0.0%
BUF–BOS	Buffalo to Boston	62	83.9%	-1.1 min	0.0%
BUF–EWR	Buffalo to Newark	61	90.2%	-10.2 min	0.0%

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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	21.4%	32.1%	5,213
Late-arriving aircraft	46.9%	42.1%	11,418
National Aviation System	28.7%	21.4%	6,991
Extreme weather	2.8%	4.2%	693
Security	0.0%	0.2%	10

24,325 delay minutes on 335 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 BUF on time in March 2024?

82.4% of 1,838 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for BUF · methodology · corrections.