Columbia Metropolitan in February 2024

90.1%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 February 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 483 domestic departures from Columbia Metropolitan (CAE). 90.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.6% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 84.0% of flights departed on time and 83.4% arrived on time, so CAE departures were 6.1 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CAE that month were on time 84.7% of the time (483 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 60%, air carrier 25% and national aviation system 10%.

On time 87.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 11.6%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Feb 2024	Year earlier	CAE, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2024
Departed on time	90.1%	—	77.8%	84.0%
Arrived on time	87.6%	—	77.8%	83.4%
Cancelled	0.6%	—	3.1%	0.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	7.8 min	—	20.1 min	11.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	16	—	15	17,307
Scheduled departures	483	—	5,495	519,221

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DL Delta Air Lines	140	29%	97.1%	-14.9 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	140	29%	83.6%	2.9 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	58	12%	74.1%	11.3 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	58	12%	84.5%	-2.8 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	52	11%	92.3%	-9.4 min	1.9%
YX Republic Airline	35	7%	85.7%	-3.5 min	5.7%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
CAE–ATL	Columbia to Atlanta	167	96.4%	-13.9 min	0.0%
CAE–DCA	Columbia to Washington	79	82.3%	-2.0 min	0.0%
CAE–CLT	Columbia to Charlotte	71	84.5%	9.6 min	0.0%
CAE–DFW	Columbia to Dallas/Fort Worth	58	74.1%	11.3 min	0.0%
CAE–ORD	Columbia to Chicago	58	84.5%	-2.8 min	0.0%
CAE–LGA	Columbia to New York	50	90.0%	-10.2 min	6.0%

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), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	24.5%	35.9%	884
Late-arriving aircraft	60.3%	36.9%	2,177
National Aviation System	9.7%	21.7%	351
Extreme weather	3.5%	5.3%	128
Security	1.9%	0.3%	68

3,608 delay minutes on 56 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 February 2024?

90.1% of 483 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 84.0% and 83.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 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 February 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.