Lovell Field in January 2024

70.3%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 471 domestic departures from Lovell Field (CHA). 70.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 69.6% reached their destination on time; 5.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so CHA departures were 3.7 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CHA that month were on time 71.0% of the time (472 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 54%, air carrier 27% and national aviation system 13%.

On time 69.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 25.1%
Cancelled 5.1%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from CHA in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	CHA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	70.3%	—	75.3%	74.0%
Arrived on time	69.6%	—	74.2%	72.9%
Cancelled	5.1%	—	2.7%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	21.0 min	—	22.9 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	16	—	14	18,242
Scheduled departures	471	—	5,105	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
9E Endeavor Air	127	27%	76.4%	8.6 min	2.4%
MQ Envoy Air	99	21%	59.6%	22.5 min	5.1%
OO SkyWest Airlines	87	18%	54.0%	31.2 min	9.2%
OH PSA Airlines	82	17%	78.0%	1.4 min	8.5%
DL Delta Air Lines	59	13%	86.4%	6.0 min	1.7%
G4 Allegiant Air	17	4%	58.8%	25.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
CHA–ATL	Chattanooga to Atlanta	168	82.1%	5.9 min	1.8%
CHA–ORD	Chattanooga to Chicago	85	52.9%	32.5 min	9.4%
CHA–CLT	Chattanooga to Charlotte	80	72.5%	12.5 min	2.5%
CHA–DFW	Chattanooga to Dallas/Fort Worth	80	65.0%	17.9 min	6.3%
CHA–DCA	Chattanooga to Washington	21	61.9%	-5.8 min	23.8%
CHA–DTW	Chattanooga to Detroit	20	60.0%	21.6 min	5.0%
CHA–SFB	Chattanooga to Sanford	9	66.7%	13.9 min	0.0%
CHA–PIE	Chattanooga to St. Petersburg	8	50.0%	37.8 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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	27.4%	32.6%	2,510
Late-arriving aircraft	53.6%	39.0%	4,905
National Aviation System	13.1%	17.9%	1,201
Extreme weather	5.8%	10.3%	532
Security	0.0%	0.2%	1

9,149 delay minutes on 118 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 January 2024?

70.3% of 471 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 69.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 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 January 2024; 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.