On-Time Report

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

Airport month · September 2023

The Eastern Iowa in September 2023

86.5%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 September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 602 domestic departures from The Eastern Iowa (CID). 86.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.9% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so CID departures were 6.0 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CID that month were on time 79.8% of the time (604 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 47%, late-arriving aircraft 37% and national aviation system 13%.

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

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

MeasureSep 2023Year earlierCID, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time86.5%—76.8%80.5%
Arrived on time84.9%—74.9%80.1%
Cancelled0.3%—2.7%1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)15.1 min—23.5 min14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day20—2318,978
Scheduled departures602—8,397569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines14424%84.0%8.8 min0.0%
AA American Airlines9215%82.6%24.7 min0.0%
UA United Airlines9115%90.1%-5.0 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines8414%86.9%-4.5 min1.2%
G4 Allegiant Air6010%81.7%3.2 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air447%72.7%26.9 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines305%100.0%-8.6 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines295%75.9%-4.9 min3.4%
YX Republic Airline285%92.9%-7.0 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
CID–ORDCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Chicago13980.6%18.5 min0.0%
CID–DENCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Denver8985.4%-7.1 min1.1%
CID–DFWCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Dallas/Fort Worth7978.5%23.9 min0.0%
CID–CLTCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Charlotte6090.0%2.4 min0.0%
CID–MSPCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Minneapolis6093.3%-2.6 min0.0%
CID–DCACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Washington5481.5%-0.6 min1.9%
CID–ATLCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Atlanta30100.0%-8.6 min0.0%
CID–PHXCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Phoenix3090.0%-6.5 min0.0%
CID–BNACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Nashville1369.2%24.4 min0.0%
CID–AZACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Phoenix1291.7%2.5 min0.0%
CID–LASCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Las Vegas977.8%1.9 min0.0%
CID–PGDCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Punta Gorda988.9%-15.4 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), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Sep 2023Minutes
Air carrier46.5%36.4%4,080
Late-arriving aircraft37.1%38.3%3,250
National Aviation System13.3%19.9%1,170
Extreme weather3.1%5.1%269
Security0.0%0.2%0
8,769 delay minutes on 89 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 September 2023?

86.5% of 602 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

September 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 September 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.