On-Time Report

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

Airport month · December 2023

The Eastern Iowa in December 2023

84.6%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 December 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 602 domestic departures from The Eastern Iowa (CID). 84.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.1% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.1% of flights departed on time and 83.8% arrived on time, so CID departures were 1.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CID that month were on time 83.2% of the time (601 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 38%, late-arriving aircraft 30% and national aviation system 18%.

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

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

MeasureDec 2023Year earlierCID, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Dec 2023
Departed on time84.6%—76.8%83.1%
Arrived on time83.1%—74.9%83.8%
Cancelled0.3%—2.7%0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)12.6 min—23.5 min11.6 min
Scheduled departures a day20—2319,013
Scheduled departures602—8,397570,394

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
AA American Airlines12421%78.2%10.0 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines12320%79.7%3.9 min0.8%
G4 Allegiant Air9215%85.9%-11.5 min1.1%
UA United Airlines8314%95.2%-3.8 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air7012%81.4%-1.6 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines508%80.0%-2.1 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines315%80.6%17.0 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air183%100.0%-13.4 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines112%63.6%1.7 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
CID–ORDCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Chicago14980.5%4.3 min0.0%
CID–DFWCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Dallas/Fort Worth8076.3%12.8 min0.0%
CID–DENCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Denver7389.0%-2.5 min0.0%
CID–MSPCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Minneapolis6291.9%-11.1 min1.6%
CID–DCACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Washington5080.0%-2.1 min0.0%
CID–ATLCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Atlanta3180.6%17.0 min0.0%
CID–CLTCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Charlotte3183.9%9.7 min0.0%
CID–PHXCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Phoenix2979.3%-1.5 min0.0%
CID–AZACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Phoenix2290.9%-29.8 min0.0%
CID–SFBCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Sanford13100.0%-11.3 min0.0%
CID–PGDCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Punta Gorda1283.3%-8.4 min0.0%
CID–PIECedar Rapids/Iowa City to St. Petersburg1283.3%4.4 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), December 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Dec 2023Minutes
Air carrier37.6%37.1%2,803
Late-arriving aircraft30.2%38.8%2,252
National Aviation System17.9%17.6%1,335
Extreme weather14.3%6.2%1,067
Security0.0%0.3%0
7,457 delay minutes on 100 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 December 2023?

84.6% of 602 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.1% and 83.8%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

December 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 December 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.