On-Time Report

Airports › Cedar Rapids/Iowa City (CID) › August 2023

Airport month · August 2023

The Eastern Iowa in August 2023

85.6%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 August 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 592 domestic departures from The Eastern Iowa (CID). 85.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.0% reached their destination on time; 1.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 76.9% arrived on time, so CID departures were 8.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CID that month were on time 80.0% of the time (591 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 42%, air carrier 38% and national aviation system 15%.

Every scheduled departure from CID in August 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

August 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureAug 2023Year earlierCID, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Aug 2023
Departed on time85.6%—76.8%76.7%
Arrived on time85.0%—74.9%76.9%
Cancelled1.2%—2.7%1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)13.3 min—23.5 min17.3 min
Scheduled departures a day20—2320,100
Scheduled departures592—8,397602,987

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
AA American Airlines11920%73.1%14.8 min1.7%
UA United Airlines9716%85.6%10.3 min2.1%
OO SkyWest Airlines8314%95.2%0.3 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air7112%85.9%-2.7 min1.4%
OH PSA Airlines6210%91.9%-7.1 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air5810%82.8%9.5 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline488%91.7%-9.3 min2.1%
DL Delta Air Lines315%77.4%0.6 min3.2%
F9 Frontier Airlines234%87.0%-2.1 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
CID–ORDCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Chicago12886.7%3.1 min0.8%
CID–DFWCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Dallas/Fort Worth9172.5%14.6 min1.1%
CID–DENCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Denver8583.5%9.2 min2.4%
CID–CLTCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Charlotte6283.9%4.7 min1.6%
CID–MSPCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Minneapolis6298.4%-11.5 min0.0%
CID–ATLCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Atlanta3177.4%0.6 min3.2%
CID–DCACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Washington3193.5%-11.1 min0.0%
CID–PHXCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Phoenix3190.3%20.8 min0.0%
CID–AZACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Phoenix14100.0%-5.8 min0.0%
CID–BNACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Nashville1376.9%12.5 min0.0%
CID–PGDCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Punta Gorda1190.9%-13.5 min9.1%
CID–PIECedar Rapids/Iowa City to St. Petersburg1190.9%-8.5 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), August 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Aug 2023Minutes
Air carrier38.2%36.7%2,846
Late-arriving aircraft42.3%42.2%3,148
National Aviation System14.6%15.7%1,090
Extreme weather4.8%5.1%357
Security0.0%0.2%0
7,441 delay minutes on 82 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 CID on time in August 2023?

85.6% of 592 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 76.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

August 2022 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 August 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for CID · methodology · corrections.