On-Time Report

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

Airport month · August 2024

The Eastern Iowa in August 2024

80.0%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 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 789 domestic departures from The Eastern Iowa (CID). 80.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 72.8% reached their destination on time; 1.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 75.4% of flights departed on time and 74.7% arrived on time, so CID departures were 4.6 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in August 2023, the airport had 592 departures with 85.6% leaving on time: a change of −5.6 points, with flights up 33%.

Flights arriving at CID that month were on time 72.9% of the time (790 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 34%, air carrier 31% and national aviation system 23%.

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

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

MeasureAug 2024Aug 2023CID, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Aug 2024
Departed on time80.0%85.6%76.8%75.4%
Arrived on time72.8%85.0%74.9%74.7%
Cancelled1.6%1.2%2.7%2.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)17.8 min13.3 min23.5 min18.4 min
Scheduled departures a day26202320,634
Scheduled departures7895928,397619,025

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines23430%62.4%20.8 min1.3%
MQ Envoy Air14018%77.9%6.4 min0.7%
UA United Airlines11515%77.4%6.1 min2.6%
OH PSA Airlines8811%73.9%7.4 min1.1%
AA American Airlines729%70.8%38.7 min5.6%
G4 Allegiant Air729%79.2%9.5 min1.4%
DL Delta Air Lines314%90.3%-4.0 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines314%77.4%8.8 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline61%83.3%1.8 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
CID–ORDCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Chicago23864.7%16.8 min2.5%
CID–DENCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Denver11479.8%9.2 min0.9%
CID–DFWCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Dallas/Fort Worth8781.6%29.1 min2.3%
CID–DCACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Washington6266.1%9.5 min1.6%
CID–MSPCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Minneapolis6256.5%17.5 min0.0%
CID–PHXCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Phoenix6272.6%10.8 min0.0%
CID–CLTCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Charlotte6185.2%3.2 min3.3%
CID–ATLCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Atlanta3190.3%-4.0 min0.0%
CID–AZACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Phoenix1384.6%-3.6 min0.0%
CID–PIECedar Rapids/Iowa City to St. Petersburg1376.9%26.5 min0.0%
CID–PGDCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Punta Gorda1181.8%-12.8 min9.1%
CID–SFBCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Sanford1070.0%19.5 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 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Aug 2024Minutes
Air carrier31.3%33.8%4,812
Late-arriving aircraft34.2%39.8%5,257
National Aviation System22.8%20.4%3,505
Extreme weather11.6%5.9%1,788
Security0.0%0.1%0
15,362 delay minutes on 199 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 2024?

80.0% of 789 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 72.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 75.4% and 74.7%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In August 2023, 85.6% of 592 departures left on time and 1.2% were cancelled, against 80.0% and 1.6% in August 2024.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for August 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.