Columbia Metropolitan in January 2024

79.4%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 486 domestic departures from Columbia Metropolitan (CAE). 79.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 77.4% reached their destination on time; 3.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so CAE departures were 5.4 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CAE that month were on time 70.5% of the time (488 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 58%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 12%.

On time 77.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.9%
Cancelled 3.7%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from CAE in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	CAE, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	79.4%	—	77.8%	74.0%
Arrived on time	77.4%	—	77.8%	72.9%
Cancelled	3.7%	—	3.1%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	17.7 min	—	20.1 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	16	—	15	18,242
Scheduled departures	486	—	5,495	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	124	26%	77.4%	2.8 min	4.8%
DL Delta Air Lines	119	24%	88.2%	-7.4 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	81	17%	80.2%	9.3 min	2.5%
AA American Airlines	62	13%	62.9%	43.5 min	3.2%
OO SkyWest Airlines	60	12%	80.0%	7.2 min	5.0%
YX Republic Airline	40	8%	57.5%	7.7 min	12.5%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
CAE–ATL	Columbia to Atlanta	172	84.3%	1.9 min	0.0%
CAE–DCA	Columbia to Washington	82	68.3%	12.5 min	8.5%
CAE–DFW	Columbia to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	62.9%	43.5 min	3.2%
CAE–CLT	Columbia to Charlotte	60	85.0%	-7.4 min	3.3%
CAE–ORD	Columbia to Chicago	60	80.0%	7.2 min	5.0%
CAE–LGA	Columbia to New York	50	74.0%	-8.1 min	8.0%

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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	28.3%	32.6%	2,260
Late-arriving aircraft	57.5%	39.0%	4,595
National Aviation System	11.5%	17.9%	921
Extreme weather	2.7%	10.3%	215
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

7,991 delay minutes on 92 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 January 2024?

79.4% of 486 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 77.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 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 January 2024; 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.