Lovell Field in October 2023

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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 513 domestic departures from Lovell Field (CHA). 90.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 88.1% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so CHA departures were 6.3 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CHA that month were on time 87.1% of the time (513 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 40%, air carrier 37% and national aviation system 17%.

On time 88.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 11.1%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2023	Year earlier	CHA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time	90.1%	—	75.3%	83.8%
Arrived on time	88.1%	—	74.2%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.6%	—	2.7%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	8.2 min	—	22.9 min	11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	17	—	14	19,966
Scheduled departures	513	—	5,105	598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
9E Endeavor Air	128	25%	93.8%	-10.9 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	114	22%	80.7%	5.4 min	1.8%
DL Delta Air Lines	98	19%	91.8%	-3.3 min	1.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	93	18%	87.1%	-2.6 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	62	12%	88.7%	0.8 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	18	4%	77.8%	11.9 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
CHA–ATL	Chattanooga to Atlanta	202	92.6%	-6.6 min	0.5%
CHA–DFW	Chattanooga to Dallas/Fort Worth	114	80.7%	5.4 min	1.8%
CHA–ORD	Chattanooga to Chicago	93	87.1%	-2.6 min	0.0%
CHA–CLT	Chattanooga to Charlotte	35	91.4%	2.3 min	0.0%
CHA–DCA	Chattanooga to Washington	27	85.2%	-1.1 min	0.0%
CHA–DTW	Chattanooga to Detroit	24	95.8%	-16.5 min	0.0%
CHA–PIE	Chattanooga to St. Petersburg	9	66.7%	21.4 min	0.0%
CHA–SFB	Chattanooga to Sanford	9	88.9%	2.4 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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	37.2%	41.3%	1,448
Late-arriving aircraft	39.9%	40.5%	1,552
National Aviation System	16.6%	14.4%	646
Extreme weather	6.2%	3.7%	243
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

3,889 delay minutes on 57 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 October 2023?

90.1% of 513 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 88.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 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 October 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.