Lovell Field in May 2024

70.8%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 586 domestic departures from Lovell Field (CHA). 70.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 70.6% reached their destination on time; 1.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so CHA departures were 2.6 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CHA that month were on time 70.5% of the time (586 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 31%, late-arriving aircraft 29% and extreme weather 21%.

On time 70.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 27.3%
Cancelled 1.9%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	May 2024	Year earlier	CHA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time	70.8%	—	75.3%	73.4%
Arrived on time	70.6%	—	74.2%	72.3%
Cancelled	1.9%	—	2.7%	1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	23.7 min	—	22.9 min	20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day	20	—	14	20,325
Scheduled departures	586	—	5,105	609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DL Delta Air Lines	148	25%	84.5%	2.0 min	0.7%
OH PSA Airlines	130	22%	74.6%	13.3 min	0.8%
MQ Envoy Air	123	21%	56.1%	25.7 min	5.7%
OO SkyWest Airlines	90	15%	64.4%	46.8 min	1.1%
9E Endeavor Air	72	12%	69.4%	8.8 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	23	4%	65.2%	11.1 min	4.3%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
CHA–ATL	Chattanooga to Atlanta	194	80.9%	3.4 min	0.5%
CHA–DFW	Chattanooga to Dallas/Fort Worth	123	56.1%	25.7 min	5.7%
CHA–CLT	Chattanooga to Charlotte	103	74.8%	8.5 min	1.0%
CHA–ORD	Chattanooga to Chicago	90	64.4%	46.8 min	1.1%
CHA–DCA	Chattanooga to Washington	27	74.1%	31.7 min	0.0%
CHA–DTW	Chattanooga to Detroit	26	69.2%	10.3 min	0.0%
CHA–PIE	Chattanooga to St. Petersburg	9	88.9%	2.1 min	0.0%
CHA–SFB	Chattanooga to Sanford	9	44.4%	24.6 min	11.1%
CHA–LAS	Chattanooga to Las Vegas	5	60.0%	5.6 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

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

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

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	31.2%	29.8%	4,174
Late-arriving aircraft	29.4%	43.0%	3,932
National Aviation System	18.2%	20.1%	2,433
Extreme weather	21.2%	7.0%	2,834
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

13,373 delay minutes on 160 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 May 2024?

70.8% of 586 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 70.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 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.