City of Colorado Springs Municipal in March 2024

82.9%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 972 domestic departures from City of Colorado Springs Municipal (COS). 82.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.9% reached their destination on time; 2.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so COS departures were 4.4 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at COS that month were on time 77.2% of the time (972 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 42%, national aviation system 29% and air carrier 25%.

On time 79.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 17.4%
Cancelled 2.5%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	COS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	82.9%	—	79.1%	78.5%
Arrived on time	79.9%	—	79.8%	78.3%
Cancelled	2.5%	—	1.1%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.9 min	—	16.8 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	32	—	36	19,726
Scheduled departures	972	—	13,185	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	423	44%	78.7%	4.3 min	1.9%
OO SkyWest Airlines	333	34%	85.9%	-8.4 min	3.9%
AA American Airlines	93	10%	68.8%	18.7 min	2.2%
UA United Airlines	61	6%	75.4%	5.4 min	1.6%
DL Delta Air Lines	31	3%	87.1%	4.9 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	31	3%	67.7%	9.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
COS–DEN	Colorado Springs to Denver	391	81.1%	-4.3 min	3.6%
COS–DFW	Colorado Springs to Dallas/Fort Worth	155	71.0%	14.0 min	1.9%
COS–PHX	Colorado Springs to Phoenix	91	82.4%	8.6 min	1.1%
COS–LAS	Colorado Springs to Las Vegas	86	73.3%	9.8 min	1.2%
COS–DAL	Colorado Springs to Dallas	70	82.9%	-0.3 min	1.4%
COS–ATL	Colorado Springs to Atlanta	31	87.1%	4.9 min	0.0%
COS–ORD	Colorado Springs to Chicago	31	93.5%	-12.8 min	3.2%
COS–SLC	Colorado Springs to Salt Lake City	31	96.8%	-13.9 min	0.0%
COS–MDW	Colorado Springs to Chicago	27	85.2%	3.3 min	3.7%
COS–LGB	Colorado Springs to Long Beach	26	73.1%	3.2 min	3.8%
COS–IAH	Colorado Springs to Houston	24	75.0%	1.9 min	4.2%
COS–HOU	Colorado Springs to Houston	9	88.9%	-2.7 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	25.3%	32.1%	2,472
Late-arriving aircraft	42.3%	42.1%	4,123
National Aviation System	29.2%	21.4%	2,853
Extreme weather	3.2%	4.2%	309
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

9,757 delay minutes on 169 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 March 2024?

82.9% of 972 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.9% 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 COS · methodology · corrections.