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Airport month · April 2024

John Glenn Columbus International in April 2024

85.4%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 3,351 domestic departures from John Glenn Columbus International (CMH). 85.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.8% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so CMH departures were 4.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at CMH that month were on time 81.0% of the time (3,349 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 48%, air carrier 24% and national aviation system 23%.

Every scheduled departure from CMH in April 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureApr 2024Year earlierCMH, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time85.4%—79.6%80.5%
Arrived on time84.8%—79.0%80.2%
Cancelled0.3%—2.0%0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)11.0 min—15.0 min14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day112—12319,406
Scheduled departures3,351—44,711582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines1,02130%83.8%2.4 min0.1%
YX Republic Airline95328%90.5%-5.7 min0.4%
AA American Airlines33710%72.7%16.5 min1.2%
MQ Envoy Air2367%81.8%-0.1 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines2156%94.4%-6.5 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines1805%82.2%-1.2 min0.6%
UA United Airlines1715%72.5%15.0 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines863%90.7%-0.4 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air562%91.1%-6.2 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines532%84.9%14.8 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines301%80.0%3.2 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines130%92.3%-0.5 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
CMH–ORDColumbus to Chicago25980.3%0.2 min0.0%
CMH–LGAColumbus to New York25789.9%-4.7 min0.8%
CMH–ATLColumbus to Atlanta25391.7%-4.2 min0.0%
CMH–MCOColumbus to Orlando19588.2%0.2 min0.5%
CMH–CLTColumbus to Charlotte17376.3%6.3 min0.6%
CMH–DENColumbus to Denver16382.8%2.3 min0.0%
CMH–JFKColumbus to New York15388.9%-3.0 min0.7%
CMH–DCAColumbus to Washington14785.0%1.8 min0.0%
CMH–EWRColumbus to Newark14189.4%-12.8 min0.7%
CMH–BOSColumbus to Boston12787.4%-0.5 min0.0%
CMH–MDWColumbus to Chicago12082.5%0.6 min0.0%
CMH–DFWColumbus to Dallas/Fort Worth11966.4%20.3 min2.5%

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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2024Minutes
Air carrier23.9%33.6%7,905
Late-arriving aircraft48.0%41.0%15,890
National Aviation System23.4%20.0%7,752
Extreme weather4.6%5.1%1,515
Security0.1%0.2%20
33,082 delay minutes on 495 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 CMH on time in April 2024?

85.4% of 3,351 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for CMH · methodology · corrections.