On-Time Report

Airports › Colorado Springs (COS) › May 2024

Airport month · May 2024

City of Colorado Springs Municipal in May 2024

75.7%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,067 domestic departures from City of Colorado Springs Municipal (COS). 75.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 75.8% reached their destination on time; 1.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so COS departures were 2.3 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at COS that month were on time 68.2% of the time (1,069 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 33%, late-arriving aircraft 32% and national aviation system 22%.

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

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

MeasureMay 2024Year earlierCOS, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time75.7%—79.1%73.4%
Arrived on time75.8%—79.8%72.3%
Cancelled1.5%—1.1%1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)20.7 min—16.8 min20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day36—3620,325
Scheduled departures1,067—13,185609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines42540%81.2%3.8 min1.2%
WN Southwest Airlines41839%76.8%9.9 min0.2%
AA American Airlines939%48.4%48.4 min9.7%
UA United Airlines747%74.3%12.0 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines313%83.9%3.9 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air262%65.4%64.7 min3.8%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
COS–DENColorado Springs to Denver44780.8%2.8 min0.4%
COS–DFWColorado Springs to Dallas/Fort Worth18160.2%40.7 min5.5%
COS–PHXColorado Springs to Phoenix8576.5%8.2 min0.0%
COS–LASColorado Springs to Las Vegas7684.2%3.6 min0.0%
COS–DALColorado Springs to Dallas7270.8%20.6 min0.0%
COS–ORDColorado Springs to Chicago4077.5%-0.3 min2.5%
COS–IAHColorado Springs to Houston3863.2%29.1 min5.3%
COS–ATLColorado Springs to Atlanta3183.9%3.9 min0.0%
COS–MDWColorado Springs to Chicago3158.1%24.8 min3.2%
COS–SLCColorado Springs to Salt Lake City3193.5%-1.9 min0.0%
COS–LGBColorado Springs to Long Beach2792.6%-2.5 min0.0%
COS–HOUColorado Springs to Houston875.0%-0.6 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), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, May 2024Minutes
Air carrier33.4%29.8%6,900
Late-arriving aircraft32.0%43.0%6,610
National Aviation System22.2%20.1%4,576
Extreme weather12.3%7.0%2,548
Security0.0%0.1%0
20,634 delay minutes on 237 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 COS on time in May 2024?

75.7% of 1,067 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 75.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 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.