City of Colorado Springs Municipal in January 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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 956 domestic departures from City of Colorado Springs Municipal (COS). 80.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 78.6% reached their destination on time; 1.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so COS departures were 6.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at COS that month were on time 75.0% of the time (955 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 43%, air carrier 36% and national aviation system 19%.

On time 78.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 19.8%
Cancelled 1.4%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from COS in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	COS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	80.9%	—	79.1%	74.0%
Arrived on time	78.6%	—	79.8%	72.9%
Cancelled	1.4%	—	1.1%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	16.7 min	—	16.8 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	32	—	36	18,242
Scheduled departures	956	—	13,185	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	410	43%	80.0%	1.0 min	2.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	359	38%	81.6%	13.1 min	1.1%
AA American Airlines	91	10%	62.6%	28.8 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	58	6%	75.9%	11.8 min	1.7%
DL Delta Air Lines	31	3%	77.4%	-1.0 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	7	1%	71.4%	0.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
COS–DEN	Colorado Springs to Denver	364	80.8%	3.8 min	1.9%
COS–DFW	Colorado Springs to Dallas/Fort Worth	153	66.0%	35.0 min	0.0%
COS–PHX	Colorado Springs to Phoenix	86	83.7%	-0.5 min	0.0%
COS–LAS	Colorado Springs to Las Vegas	81	82.7%	-0.2 min	1.2%
COS–DAL	Colorado Springs to Dallas	75	77.3%	2.2 min	2.7%
COS–ORD	Colorado Springs to Chicago	40	82.5%	26.9 min	2.5%
COS–ATL	Colorado Springs to Atlanta	31	77.4%	-1.0 min	0.0%
COS–IAH	Colorado Springs to Houston	31	74.2%	21.8 min	3.2%
COS–MDW	Colorado Springs to Chicago	31	77.4%	1.2 min	3.2%
COS–SLC	Colorado Springs to Salt Lake City	31	90.3%	-7.6 min	0.0%
COS–LGB	Colorado Springs to Long Beach	27	85.2%	-1.2 min	0.0%
COS–HOU	Colorado Springs to Houston	4	75.0%	5.5 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	35.5%	32.6%	5,229
Late-arriving aircraft	43.2%	39.0%	6,372
National Aviation System	18.5%	17.9%	2,736
Extreme weather	2.8%	10.3%	413
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

14,750 delay minutes on 189 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left COS on time in January 2024?

80.9% of 956 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 78.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

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