Lovell Field in March 2024

82.6%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 574 domestic departures from Lovell Field (CHA). 82.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.1% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so CHA departures were 4.1 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CHA that month were on time 83.3% of the time (574 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 45%, late-arriving aircraft 37% and extreme weather 10%.

On time 83.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.2%
Cancelled 0.5%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	CHA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	82.6%	—	75.3%	78.5%
Arrived on time	83.1%	—	74.2%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.5%	—	2.7%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	16.9 min	—	22.9 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	19	—	14	19,726
Scheduled departures	574	—	5,105	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	211	37%	76.8%	15.1 min	0.9%
DL Delta Air Lines	143	25%	93.0%	-1.6 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	92	16%	89.1%	1.4 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	60	10%	88.3%	-5.6 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	50	9%	72.0%	9.3 min	2.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	18	3%	61.1%	12.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
CHA–ATL	Chattanooga to Atlanta	181	91.2%	-2.2 min	0.0%
CHA–DFW	Chattanooga to Dallas/Fort Worth	124	76.6%	9.0 min	2.4%
CHA–CLT	Chattanooga to Charlotte	115	76.5%	19.4 min	0.0%
CHA–ORD	Chattanooga to Chicago	84	88.1%	3.5 min	0.0%
CHA–DCA	Chattanooga to Washington	26	73.1%	7.2 min	0.0%
CHA–DTW	Chattanooga to Detroit	26	96.2%	-8.7 min	0.0%
CHA–PIE	Chattanooga to St. Petersburg	9	66.7%	8.1 min	0.0%
CHA–SFB	Chattanooga to Sanford	9	55.6%	16.6 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	44.9%	32.1%	3,990
Late-arriving aircraft	37.4%	42.1%	3,325
National Aviation System	7.3%	21.4%	653
Extreme weather	10.4%	4.2%	926
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

8,894 delay minutes on 93 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 March 2024?

82.6% of 574 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.