Lovell Field in February 2024

88.9%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 February 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 496 domestic departures from Lovell Field (CHA). 88.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.1% reached their destination on time; 0.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 84.0% of flights departed on time and 83.4% arrived on time, so CHA departures were 4.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CHA that month were on time 88.0% of the time (498 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 44%, air carrier 40% and national aviation system 13%.

On time 86.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 13.7%
Cancelled 0.2%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Feb 2024	Year earlier	CHA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2024
Departed on time	88.9%	—	75.3%	84.0%
Arrived on time	86.1%	—	74.2%	83.4%
Cancelled	0.2%	—	2.7%	0.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	7.9 min	—	22.9 min	11.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	17	—	14	17,307
Scheduled departures	496	—	5,105	519,221

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	150	30%	83.3%	2.6 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	106	21%	94.3%	-11.0 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	95	19%	84.2%	-2.3 min	1.1%
9E Endeavor Air	79	16%	91.1%	-6.6 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	49	10%	77.6%	0.3 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	17	3%	70.6%	15.4 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
CHA–ATL	Chattanooga to Atlanta	165	92.1%	-8.7 min	0.0%
CHA–CLT	Chattanooga to Charlotte	95	82.1%	6.2 min	0.0%
CHA–DFW	Chattanooga to Dallas/Fort Worth	94	86.2%	-7.9 min	0.0%
CHA–ORD	Chattanooga to Chicago	79	82.3%	-0.7 min	1.3%
CHA–DCA	Chattanooga to Washington	25	72.0%	15.9 min	0.0%
CHA–DTW	Chattanooga to Detroit	21	100.0%	-12.2 min	0.0%
CHA–PIE	Chattanooga to St. Petersburg	9	55.6%	30.0 min	0.0%
CHA–SFB	Chattanooga to Sanford	8	87.5%	-1.0 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), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	39.6%	35.9%	1,431
Late-arriving aircraft	43.7%	36.9%	1,581
National Aviation System	13.3%	21.7%	482
Extreme weather	3.4%	5.3%	122
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

3,616 delay minutes on 68 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 February 2024?

88.9% of 496 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 84.0% and 83.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 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 February 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.