Columbia Metropolitan in March 2024

84.5%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 523 domestic departures from Columbia Metropolitan (CAE). 84.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.5% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so CAE departures were 6.0 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CAE that month were on time 82.0% of the time (523 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 51%, air carrier 40% and national aviation system 8%.

On time 84.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.1%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	CAE, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	84.5%	—	77.8%	78.5%
Arrived on time	84.5%	—	77.8%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.4%	—	3.1%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.8 min	—	20.1 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	17	—	15	19,726
Scheduled departures	523	—	5,495	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	166	32%	77.7%	8.6 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	125	24%	92.8%	-6.9 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	82	16%	85.4%	1.3 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	62	12%	72.6%	12.9 min	3.2%
OO SkyWest Airlines	62	12%	96.8%	-9.2 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	26	5%	84.6%	-4.4 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
CAE–ATL	Columbia to Atlanta	181	89.5%	-3.1 min	0.0%
CAE–CLT	Columbia to Charlotte	84	73.8%	8.4 min	0.0%
CAE–DCA	Columbia to Washington	82	81.7%	8.9 min	0.0%
CAE–DFW	Columbia to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	72.6%	12.9 min	3.2%
CAE–ORD	Columbia to Chicago	62	96.8%	-9.2 min	0.0%
CAE–LGA	Columbia to New York	52	88.5%	-5.8 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	39.5%	32.1%	2,331
Late-arriving aircraft	51.4%	42.1%	3,033
National Aviation System	7.7%	21.4%	455
Extreme weather	1.4%	4.2%	83
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

5,902 delay minutes on 79 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 March 2024?

84.5% of 523 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.