Columbia Metropolitan in May 2024

79.1%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 592 domestic departures from Columbia Metropolitan (CAE). 79.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 74.7% reached their destination on time; 1.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so CAE departures were 5.7 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CAE that month were on time 72.0% of the time (592 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 45%, national aviation system 23% and air carrier 23%.

On time 74.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 23.1%
Cancelled 1.9%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	May 2024	Year earlier	CAE, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time	79.1%	—	77.8%	73.4%
Arrived on time	74.7%	—	77.8%	72.3%
Cancelled	1.9%	—	3.1%	1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	18.4 min	—	20.1 min	20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day	20	—	15	20,325
Scheduled departures	592	—	5,495	609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	210	35%	73.3%	11.6 min	0.5%
DL Delta Air Lines	142	24%	85.9%	-1.9 min	1.4%
9E Endeavor Air	89	15%	85.4%	0.2 min	2.2%
AA American Airlines	62	10%	41.9%	42.5 min	6.5%
OO SkyWest Airlines	62	10%	74.2%	7.2 min	1.6%
YX Republic Airline	27	5%	66.7%	22.3 min	3.7%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
CAE–ATL	Columbia to Atlanta	179	87.2%	-1.7 min	1.7%
CAE–CLT	Columbia to Charlotte	125	72.0%	15.6 min	0.0%
CAE–DCA	Columbia to Washington	85	75.3%	5.6 min	1.2%
CAE–LGA	Columbia to New York	79	75.9%	8.2 min	2.5%
CAE–DFW	Columbia to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	41.9%	42.5 min	6.5%
CAE–ORD	Columbia to Chicago	62	74.2%	7.2 min	1.6%

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), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	23.2%	29.8%	2,346
Late-arriving aircraft	44.8%	43.0%	4,531
National Aviation System	23.4%	20.1%	2,370
Extreme weather	8.5%	7.0%	863
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

10,110 delay minutes on 137 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 May 2024?

79.1% of 592 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 74.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 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.