On-Time Report

Airports › Cedar Rapids/Iowa City (CID) › March 2024

Airport month · March 2024

The Eastern Iowa in March 2024

85.3%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 646 domestic departures from The Eastern Iowa (CID). 85.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.4% reached their destination on time; 1.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so CID departures were 6.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CID that month were on time 81.1% of the time (646 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 36%, late-arriving aircraft 33% and national aviation system 23%.

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

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

MeasureMar 2024Year earlierCID, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time85.3%—76.8%78.5%
Arrived on time84.4%—74.9%78.3%
Cancelled1.2%—2.7%0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)13.7 min—23.5 min15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day22—2319,726
Scheduled departures646—8,397591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
AA American Airlines12119%78.5%4.8 min1.7%
G4 Allegiant Air12119%75.2%19.4 min0.8%
OO SkyWest Airlines10616%95.3%-14.8 min1.9%
MQ Envoy Air9314%88.2%-13.3 min2.2%
UA United Airlines9314%82.8%5.5 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines315%90.3%-7.3 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines315%87.1%-14.2 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines264%76.9%-7.0 min3.8%
YX Republic Airline244%100.0%-22.2 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
CID–ORDCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Chicago15691.0%-9.1 min0.0%
CID–DFWCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Dallas/Fort Worth9080.0%-2.6 min4.4%
CID–DENCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Denver7987.3%-3.9 min0.0%
CID–MSPCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Minneapolis6295.2%-13.7 min3.2%
CID–ATLCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Atlanta3190.3%-7.3 min0.0%
CID–CLTCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Charlotte3180.6%-0.1 min0.0%
CID–DCACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Washington3187.1%-14.2 min0.0%
CID–PHXCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Phoenix3177.4%10.9 min0.0%
CID–AZACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Phoenix3093.3%-13.5 min0.0%
CID–PGDCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Punta Gorda1957.9%104.7 min0.0%
CID–PIECedar Rapids/Iowa City to St. Petersburg1758.8%29.5 min0.0%
CID–SFBCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Sanford1782.4%2.9 min5.9%

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 carrier36.4%32.1%3,005
Late-arriving aircraft33.1%42.1%2,733
National Aviation System23.1%21.4%1,902
Extreme weather7.4%4.2%607
Security0.0%0.2%0
8,247 delay minutes on 91 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 March 2024?

85.3% of 646 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.4% 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 CID · methodology · corrections.