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Airport month · April 2024

Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall in April 2024

72.7%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 8,230 domestic departures from Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI). 72.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 75.3% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so BWI departures were 7.8 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BWI that month were on time 81.7% of the time (8,235 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 40%, air carrier 38% and national aviation system 20%.

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

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

MeasureApr 2024Year earlierBWI, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time72.7%—71.7%80.5%
Arrived on time75.3%—76.4%80.2%
Cancelled0.6%—1.8%0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)15.8 min—16.5 min14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day274—25919,406
Scheduled departures8,230—94,429582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines6,11874%73.9%9.0 min0.5%
NK Spirit Airlines5357%82.6%0.3 min0.9%
DL Delta Air Lines4335%87.8%-1.9 min0.0%
AA American Airlines3074%75.6%4.8 min1.0%
UA United Airlines2623%82.1%3.1 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines2583%64.3%31.8 min3.9%
YX Republic Airline721%81.9%3.2 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air601%73.3%7.1 min3.3%
B6 JetBlue Airways561%75.0%2.8 min3.6%
MQ Envoy Air551%92.7%-6.7 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines441%68.2%5.6 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air230%73.9%5.3 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
BWI–ATLBaltimore to Atlanta53077.7%4.6 min0.9%
BWI–MCOBaltimore to Orlando46974.6%14.9 min1.5%
BWI–FLLBaltimore to Fort Lauderdale34378.7%3.7 min1.2%
BWI–BOSBaltimore to Boston33974.6%7.1 min0.6%
BWI–TPABaltimore to Tampa28477.8%11.0 min0.4%
BWI–CLTBaltimore to Charlotte27070.7%9.6 min1.1%
BWI–DENBaltimore to Denver25968.7%11.4 min0.4%
BWI–MIABaltimore to Miami23482.9%1.3 min2.1%
BWI–ORDBaltimore to Chicago22087.3%1.2 min0.0%
BWI–MDWBaltimore to Chicago16975.7%9.9 min0.6%
BWI–BNABaltimore to Nashville16680.1%4.3 min0.0%
BWI–LASBaltimore to Las Vegas16672.9%6.5 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 carrier38.1%33.6%41,007
Late-arriving aircraft39.7%41.0%42,726
National Aviation System20.4%20.0%21,991
Extreme weather1.4%5.1%1,527
Security0.3%0.2%355
107,606 delay minutes on 1,961 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 BWI on time in April 2024?

72.7% of 8,230 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 75.3% 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 BWI · methodology · corrections.