Lovell Field in January 2025

71.8%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 January 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 478 domestic departures from Lovell Field (CHA). 71.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 69.0% reached their destination on time; 5.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so CHA departures were 7.5 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 471 departures with 70.3% leaving on time: a change of +1.5 points, with flights up 1%.

Flights arriving at CHA that month were on time 69.2% of the time (480 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 43%, air carrier 36% and national aviation system 12%.

On time 69.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 24.9%
Cancelled 5.9%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from CHA in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2025	Jan 2024	CHA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time	71.8%	70.3%	75.3%	79.3%
Arrived on time	69.0%	69.6%	74.2%	78.6%
Cancelled	5.9%	5.1%	2.7%	3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	24.6 min	21.0 min	22.9 min	14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	16	16	14	17,992
Scheduled departures	478	471	5,105	539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	171	36%	69.6%	14.1 min	7.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines	136	28%	62.5%	31.0 min	5.1%
DL Delta Air Lines	83	17%	78.3%	8.1 min	4.8%
MQ Envoy Air	61	13%	72.1%	27.3 min	6.6%
G4 Allegiant Air	27	6%	63.0%	10.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
CHA–ATL	Chattanooga to Atlanta	134	75.4%	13.4 min	5.2%
CHA–DFW	Chattanooga to Dallas/Fort Worth	119	72.3%	21.4 min	6.7%
CHA–CLT	Chattanooga to Charlotte	91	73.6%	8.5 min	6.6%
CHA–ORD	Chattanooga to Chicago	85	57.6%	36.2 min	4.7%
CHA–DCA	Chattanooga to Washington	22	45.5%	37.4 min	13.6%
CHA–SFB	Chattanooga to Sanford	10	40.0%	24.6 min	0.0%
CHA–PIE	Chattanooga to St. Petersburg	9	66.7%	10.0 min	0.0%
CHA–LAS	Chattanooga to Las Vegas	8	87.5%	-8.1 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), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	35.9%	36.2%	4,005
Late-arriving aircraft	43.4%	34.7%	4,840
National Aviation System	12.3%	19.9%	1,371
Extreme weather	8.4%	9.1%	940
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

11,156 delay minutes on 119 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 2025?

71.8% of 478 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 69.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 70.3% of 471 departures left on time and 5.1% were cancelled, against 71.8% and 5.9% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; 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.