Lovell Field in October 2025

80.8%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 521 domestic departures from Lovell Field (CHA). 80.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.1% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so CHA departures were 0.8 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 628 departures with 88.2% leaving on time: a change of −7.4 points, with flights down 17%.

Flights arriving at CHA that month were on time 77.0% of the time (521 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 48%, late-arriving aircraft 31% and national aviation system 15%.

On time 79.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 20.2%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2025	Oct 2024	CHA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time	80.8%	88.2%	75.3%	80.0%
Arrived on time	79.1%	88.4%	74.2%	79.1%
Cancelled	0.6%	0.5%	2.7%	0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.6 min	8.7 min	22.9 min	13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	17	21	14	20,195
Scheduled departures	521	628	5,105	605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	158	30%	82.3%	4.4 min	1.3%
DL Delta Air Lines	143	27%	90.2%	1.0 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	120	23%	76.7%	3.8 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	50	10%	64.0%	14.4 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	41	8%	53.7%	32.7 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	5	1%	100.0%	-11.8 min	0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	4	1%	50.0%	4.3 min	25.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
CHA–ATL	Chattanooga to Atlanta	143	90.2%	1.0 min	0.0%
CHA–DFW	Chattanooga to Dallas/Fort Worth	139	81.3%	4.8 min	1.4%
CHA–ORD	Chattanooga to Chicago	132	70.5%	8.7 min	0.0%
CHA–CLT	Chattanooga to Charlotte	35	80.0%	2.9 min	0.0%
CHA–DCA	Chattanooga to Washington	27	92.6%	-3.6 min	0.0%
CHA–SFB	Chattanooga to Sanford	14	50.0%	54.6 min	0.0%
CHA–LAS	Chattanooga to Las Vegas	9	66.7%	5.4 min	0.0%
CHA–PGD	Chattanooga to Punta Gorda	9	77.8%	-4.3 min	0.0%
CHA–PIE	Chattanooga to St. Petersburg	9	22.2%	63.1 min	0.0%
CHA–MCO	Chattanooga to Orlando	2	50.0%	8.0 min	0.0%
CHA–EWR	Chattanooga to Newark	1	0.0%	—	100.0%
CHA–FLL	Chattanooga to Fort Lauderdale	1	100.0%	-3.0 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), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	47.9%	34.0%	3,520
Late-arriving aircraft	31.4%	39.7%	2,307
National Aviation System	14.6%	22.9%	1,074
Extreme weather	6.0%	3.3%	444
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

7,345 delay minutes on 105 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 October 2025?

80.8% of 521 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024, 88.2% of 628 departures left on time and 0.5% were cancelled, against 80.8% and 0.6% in October 2025.

Provenance

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