Columbia Metropolitan in September 2023

85.4%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 September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 554 domestic departures from Columbia Metropolitan (CAE). 85.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.2% reached their destination on time; 1.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so CAE departures were 4.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CAE that month were on time 83.7% of the time (553 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 39%, air carrier 29% and extreme weather 22%.

On time 83.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.8%
Cancelled 1.6%
Diverted 0.4%

Every scheduled departure from CAE in September 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	CAE, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	85.4%	—	77.8%	80.5%
Arrived on time	83.2%	—	77.8%	80.1%
Cancelled	1.6%	—	3.1%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	15.2 min	—	20.1 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	19	—	15	18,978
Scheduled departures	554	—	5,495	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	185	33%	78.9%	13.1 min	1.1%
DL Delta Air Lines	119	21%	98.3%	-8.8 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	104	19%	80.8%	-2.3 min	3.8%
OO SkyWest Airlines	60	11%	90.0%	0.7 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	58	10%	75.9%	6.6 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	28	5%	57.1%	55.6 min	10.7%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
CAE–ATL	Columbia to Atlanta	172	94.2%	-7.5 min	0.0%
CAE–DCA	Columbia to Washington	106	79.2%	11.2 min	1.9%
CAE–CLT	Columbia to Charlotte	81	79.0%	15.1 min	0.0%
CAE–LGA	Columbia to New York	78	69.2%	19.9 min	9.0%
CAE–DFW	Columbia to Dallas/Fort Worth	58	75.9%	6.6 min	0.0%
CAE–ORD	Columbia to Chicago	58	89.7%	0.8 min	0.0%
CAE–MIA	Columbia to Miami	1	100.0%	-22.0 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	29.0%	36.4%	2,293
Late-arriving aircraft	39.0%	38.3%	3,090
National Aviation System	10.3%	19.9%	816
Extreme weather	21.6%	5.1%	1,707
Security	0.1%	0.2%	10

7,916 delay minutes on 82 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 CAE on time in September 2023?

85.4% of 554 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

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