Lovell Field in September 2023

85.3%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 September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 516 domestic departures from Lovell Field (CHA). 85.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.5% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so CHA departures were 4.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CHA that month were on time 84.5% of the time (515 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 47%, late-arriving aircraft 31% and national aviation system 17%.

On time 85.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 13.6%
Cancelled 0.8%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from CHA in September 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	CHA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	85.3%	—	75.3%	80.5%
Arrived on time	85.5%	—	74.2%	80.1%
Cancelled	0.8%	—	2.7%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.3 min	—	22.9 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	17	—	14	18,978
Scheduled departures	516	—	5,105	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
9E Endeavor Air	106	21%	83.0%	1.1 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	104	20%	84.6%	-0.6 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	103	20%	94.2%	-4.2 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	94	18%	85.1%	1.4 min	1.1%
OH PSA Airlines	86	17%	84.9%	11.9 min	2.3%
G4 Allegiant Air	17	3%	58.8%	53.8 min	5.9%
YX Republic Airline	6	1%	83.3%	-0.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
CHA–ATL	Chattanooga to Atlanta	191	89.5%	-2.3 min	0.0%
CHA–DFW	Chattanooga to Dallas/Fort Worth	104	84.6%	-0.6 min	0.0%
CHA–ORD	Chattanooga to Chicago	88	84.1%	2.4 min	1.1%
CHA–CLT	Chattanooga to Charlotte	65	92.3%	-0.9 min	0.0%
CHA–DCA	Chattanooga to Washington	26	65.4%	44.6 min	7.7%
CHA–DTW	Chattanooga to Detroit	24	83.3%	1.8 min	0.0%
CHA–SFB	Chattanooga to Sanford	9	44.4%	96.1 min	0.0%
CHA–PIE	Chattanooga to St. Petersburg	8	75.0%	-0.7 min	12.5%
CHA–MIA	Chattanooga to Miami	1	100.0%	-12.0 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), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	46.8%	36.4%	2,714
Late-arriving aircraft	30.6%	38.3%	1,774
National Aviation System	16.8%	19.9%	976
Extreme weather	5.6%	5.1%	325
Security	0.1%	0.2%	4

5,793 delay minutes on 70 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 CHA on time in September 2023?

85.3% of 516 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

September 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 September 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for CHA · methodology · corrections.