On-Time Report

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

Airport month · October 2025

The Eastern Iowa in October 2025

84.3%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 714 domestic departures from The Eastern Iowa (CID). 84.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.4% reached their destination on time; 0.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so CID departures were 4.3 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 754 departures with 87.5% leaving on time: a change of −3.2 points, with flights down 5%.

Flights arriving at CID that month were on time 81.5% of the time (713 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 39%, late-arriving aircraft 31% and national aviation system 28%.

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

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

MeasureOct 2025Oct 2024CID, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time84.3%87.5%76.8%80.0%
Arrived on time82.4%85.8%74.9%79.1%
Cancelled0.1%0.5%2.7%0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)9.7 min10.2 min23.5 min13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day24252320,195
Scheduled departures7147548,397605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MQ Envoy Air30843%84.7%-3.0 min0.3%
UA United Airlines11817%78.8%6.2 min0.0%
AA American Airlines7310%83.6%10.0 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air7210%79.2%3.7 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines659%78.5%1.6 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines314%96.8%-6.8 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines294%75.9%9.8 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines183%72.2%8.2 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
CID–ORDCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Chicago22877.2%3.1 min0.0%
CID–DFWCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Dallas/Fort Worth11782.1%-1.1 min0.9%
CID–DENCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Denver10283.3%4.2 min0.0%
CID–PHXCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Phoenix6186.9%-2.1 min0.0%
CID–CLTCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Charlotte5687.5%9.6 min0.0%
CID–ATLCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Atlanta3196.8%-6.8 min0.0%
CID–DCACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Washington3187.1%-6.1 min0.0%
CID–AZACedar Rapids/Iowa City to Phoenix1770.6%10.6 min0.0%
CID–LASCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Las Vegas1586.7%6.1 min0.0%
CID–MSPCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Minneapolis1593.3%-10.7 min0.0%
CID–SFBCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Sanford1485.7%0.4 min0.0%
CID–PGDCedar Rapids/Iowa City to Punta Gorda988.9%-5.7 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 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Oct 2025Minutes
Air carrier38.8%34.0%2,744
Late-arriving aircraft30.6%39.7%2,160
National Aviation System28.3%22.9%2,001
Extreme weather2.3%3.3%163
Security0.0%0.1%0
7,068 delay minutes on 124 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 2025?

84.3% of 714 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024, 87.5% of 754 departures left on time and 0.5% were cancelled, against 84.3% and 0.1% in October 2025.

Provenance

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