On-Time Report

Airports › Cedar Rapids/Iowa City (CID) › January 2025

Airport month · January 2025

The Eastern Iowa in January 2025

80.8%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 January 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 703 domestic departures from The Eastern Iowa (CID). 80.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 78.7% reached their destination on time; 1.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so CID departures were 1.5 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 586 departures with 59.6% leaving on time: a change of +21.2 points, with flights up 20%.

Flights arriving at CID that month were on time 80.2% of the time (703 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 48%, late-arriving aircraft 26% and national aviation system 14%.

Every scheduled departure from CID in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureJan 2025Jan 2024CID, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time80.8%59.6%76.8%79.3%
Arrived on time78.7%57.3%74.9%78.6%
Cancelled1.8%10.8%2.7%3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)18.9 min50.9 min23.5 min14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day23202317,992
Scheduled departures7035868,397539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines20129%77.6%18.1 min0.5%
MQ Envoy Air11516%85.2%0.0 min0.9%
G4 Allegiant Air10215%85.3%-8.9 min0.0%
UA United Airlines9313%76.3%13.4 min2.2%
AA American Airlines8212%65.9%13.4 min4.9%
YX Republic Airline385%86.8%-10.0 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines375%75.7%-9.9 min8.1%
DL Delta Air Lines314%77.4%19.9 min6.5%
F9 Frontier Airlines41%50.0%11.0 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
CID–ORDCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Chicago20581.5%8.6 min1.0%
CID–MSPCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Minneapolis8476.2%3.4 min0.0%
CID–DFWCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Dallas/Fort Worth8270.7%7.6 min4.9%
CID–DENCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Denver6674.2%5.8 min1.5%
CID–PHXCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Phoenix6182.0%38.4 min0.0%
CID–CLTCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Charlotte3770.3%9.5 min2.7%
CID–ATLCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Atlanta3177.4%19.9 min6.5%
CID–DCACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Washington3180.6%-16.0 min9.7%
CID–PGDCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Punta Gorda2190.5%-6.5 min0.0%
CID–AZACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Phoenix2095.0%-15.3 min0.0%
CID–PIECedar Rapids/Iowa City to St. Petersburg2085.0%-12.0 min0.0%
CID–SFBCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Sanford1464.3%7.6 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), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2025Minutes
Air carrier48.2%36.2%6,187
Late-arriving aircraft25.7%34.7%3,294
National Aviation System14.0%19.9%1,803
Extreme weather11.9%9.1%1,532
Security0.2%0.2%23
12,839 delay minutes on 135 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 January 2025?

80.8% of 703 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 78.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 59.6% of 586 departures left on time and 10.8% were cancelled, against 80.8% and 1.8% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; 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.