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Airport month · March 2024

Cleveland-Hopkins International in March 2024

80.9%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 3,415 domestic departures from Cleveland-Hopkins International (CLE). 80.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.2% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so CLE departures were 2.4 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CLE that month were on time 77.2% of the time (3,414 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 43%, national aviation system 30% and air carrier 26%.

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

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

MeasureMar 2024Year earlierCLE, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time80.9%—79.3%78.5%
Arrived on time80.2%—77.7%78.3%
Cancelled0.8%—2.3%0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)14.9 min—16.7 min15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day114—11119,726
Scheduled departures3,415—40,516591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
UA United Airlines80724%87.4%-5.3 min0.1%
F9 Frontier Airlines53116%58.6%31.6 min3.0%
WN Southwest Airlines48214%79.9%-0.5 min0.8%
AA American Airlines34310%79.3%4.3 min0.9%
YX Republic Airline3149%87.9%-2.9 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air2628%83.2%1.3 min0.4%
DL Delta Air Lines2216%86.0%-2.7 min0.5%
OH PSA Airlines1414%85.1%-0.1 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines993%89.9%-7.6 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines943%77.7%4.7 min1.1%
B6 JetBlue Airways572%77.2%8.3 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air331%84.8%1.9 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
CLE–ATLCleveland to Atlanta22880.7%4.9 min0.0%
CLE–MCOCleveland to Orlando21666.2%23.0 min1.9%
CLE–LGACleveland to New York21388.3%-0.7 min0.0%
CLE–ORDCleveland to Chicago18289.0%-4.9 min0.0%
CLE–EWRCleveland to Newark15691.0%-6.4 min0.0%
CLE–CLTCleveland to Charlotte15576.8%9.2 min0.6%
CLE–JFKCleveland to New York15585.8%1.1 min0.0%
CLE–DENCleveland to Denver14383.2%-0.7 min2.1%
CLE–DFWCleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth13676.5%6.3 min1.5%
CLE–TPACleveland to Tampa13461.2%29.3 min2.2%
CLE–RSWCleveland to Fort Myers13165.6%17.5 min3.8%
CLE–PHXCleveland to Phoenix12474.2%7.0 min0.8%

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 carrier25.7%32.1%12,141
Late-arriving aircraft43.2%42.1%20,382
National Aviation System30.1%21.4%14,191
Extreme weather0.9%4.2%426
Security0.0%0.2%21
47,161 delay minutes on 643 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 CLE on time in March 2024?

80.9% of 3,415 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.2% 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 CLE · methodology · corrections.