On-Time Report

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Airport month · March 2024

Charleston AFB/International in March 2024

81.4%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 2,053 domestic departures from Charleston AFB/International (CHS). 81.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.6% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so CHS departures were 2.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CHS that month were on time 79.7% of the time (2,054 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 54%, air carrier 24% and national aviation system 20%.

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

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

MeasureMar 2024Year earlierCHS, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time81.4%—77.8%78.5%
Arrived on time82.6%—77.5%78.3%
Cancelled0.6%—2.3%0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)15.1 min—18.1 min15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day68—6719,726
Scheduled departures2,053—24,565591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
AA American Airlines39619%72.0%20.9 min1.8%
WN Southwest Airlines33516%82.7%1.1 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline33516%90.1%-4.5 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines25713%88.3%-2.8 min0.0%
UA United Airlines1849%87.0%8.8 min1.1%
B6 JetBlue Airways1558%79.4%6.9 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air1115%87.4%-4.7 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines935%83.9%4.4 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines894%71.9%17.4 min4.5%
MQ Envoy Air392%79.5%5.3 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines312%93.5%-10.1 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air181%77.8%41.3 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
CHS–ATLCharleston to Atlanta22688.5%-3.3 min0.0%
CHS–CLTCharleston to Charlotte20881.7%3.3 min0.5%
CHS–JFKCharleston to New York15587.7%-2.0 min0.0%
CHS–DCACharleston to Washington15082.0%7.0 min0.0%
CHS–EWRCharleston to Newark12493.5%2.5 min0.8%
CHS–ORDCharleston to Chicago12087.5%-7.8 min0.8%
CHS–LGACharleston to New York11985.7%-1.5 min0.0%
CHS–BWICharleston to Baltimore10683.0%1.3 min0.0%
CHS–PHLCharleston to Philadelphia10286.3%3.6 min0.0%
CHS–BOSCharleston to Boston9380.6%5.7 min0.0%
CHS–DFWCharleston to Dallas/Fort Worth9357.0%37.6 min2.2%
CHS–BNACharleston to Nashville6475.0%4.5 min0.0%

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 categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Mar 2024Minutes
Air carrier23.7%32.1%6,555
Late-arriving aircraft54.4%42.1%15,079
National Aviation System20.2%21.4%5,593
Extreme weather1.8%4.2%486
Security0.0%0.2%0
27,713 delay minutes on 339 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left CHS on time in March 2024?

81.4% of 2,053 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.6% 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 CHS · methodology · corrections.