Columbia Metropolitan in December 2023

87.7%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 December 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 497 domestic departures from Columbia Metropolitan (CAE). 87.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.5% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.1% of flights departed on time and 83.8% arrived on time, so CAE departures were 4.6 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CAE that month were on time 84.4% of the time (494 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 55%, national aviation system 21% and air carrier 21%.

On time 85.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.3%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Dec 2023	Year earlier	CAE, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2023
Departed on time	87.7%	—	77.8%	83.1%
Arrived on time	85.5%	—	77.8%	83.8%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	3.1%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.9 min	—	20.1 min	11.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	17	—	15	19,013
Scheduled departures	497	—	5,495	570,394

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	151	30%	80.8%	3.7 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	109	22%	88.1%	-5.2 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	106	21%	92.5%	-9.8 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	61	12%	77.0%	8.8 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	51	10%	88.2%	-1.8 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	19	4%	89.5%	4.4 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
CAE–ATL	Columbia to Atlanta	165	91.5%	-9.7 min	0.0%
CAE–DCA	Columbia to Washington	97	75.3%	11.0 min	0.0%
CAE–LGA	Columbia to New York	69	87.0%	1.1 min	0.0%
CAE–DFW	Columbia to Dallas/Fort Worth	61	77.0%	8.8 min	0.0%
CAE–CLT	Columbia to Charlotte	54	90.7%	-9.3 min	0.0%
CAE–ORD	Columbia to Chicago	51	88.2%	-1.8 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), December 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Dec 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	20.9%	37.1%	923
Late-arriving aircraft	54.8%	38.8%	2,422
National Aviation System	21.2%	17.6%	936
Extreme weather	3.1%	6.2%	137
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

4,418 delay minutes on 71 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 December 2023?

87.7% of 497 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.1% and 83.8%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

December 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 December 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.