On-Time Report

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

Airport month · October 2023

The Eastern Iowa in October 2023

86.1%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 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 656 domestic departures from The Eastern Iowa (CID). 86.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.5% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so CID departures were 2.3 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CID that month were on time 83.4% of the time (657 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 57%, air carrier 28% and extreme weather 9%.

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

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

MeasureOct 2023Year earlierCID, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time86.1%—76.8%83.8%
Arrived on time84.5%—74.9%84.0%
Cancelled0.8%—2.7%0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)17.4 min—23.5 min11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day22—2319,966
Scheduled departures656—8,397598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines17427%82.8%15.6 min0.6%
AA American Airlines11918%80.7%15.4 min1.7%
UA United Airlines9014%86.7%-2.9 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air7011%85.7%16.9 min1.4%
OH PSA Airlines6610%93.9%-0.6 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air497%79.6%6.0 min2.0%
DL Delta Air Lines315%93.5%-8.3 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines294%62.1%11.6 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline284%100.0%-8.2 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
CID–ORDCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Chicago18882.4%16.2 min0.5%
CID–DENCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Denver9178.0%0.1 min0.0%
CID–DFWCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Dallas/Fort Worth8675.6%23.6 min3.5%
CID–DCACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Washington6293.5%-0.1 min0.0%
CID–MSPCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Minneapolis6293.5%-4.8 min0.0%
CID–CLTCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Charlotte3591.4%0.8 min0.0%
CID–ATLCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Atlanta3193.5%-8.3 min0.0%
CID–PHXCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Phoenix3183.9%-3.9 min0.0%
CID–AZACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Phoenix1693.8%-2.9 min0.0%
CID–BNACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Nashville1361.5%102.0 min0.0%
CID–SFBCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Sanford1181.8%1.1 min9.1%
CID–LASCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Las Vegas988.9%-2.2 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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Oct 2023Minutes
Air carrier28.1%41.3%3,088
Late-arriving aircraft57.3%40.5%6,289
National Aviation System5.7%14.4%630
Extreme weather8.8%3.7%970
Security0.0%0.2%4
10,981 delay minutes on 97 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 October 2023?

86.1% of 656 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 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 October 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.