On-Time Report

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Airport month · October 2025

City of Colorado Springs Municipal in October 2025

83.5%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,227 domestic departures from City of Colorado Springs Municipal (COS). 83.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.1% reached their destination on time; 0.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so COS departures were 3.5 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 1,141 departures with 87.5% leaving on time: a change of −4.0 points, with flights up 8%.

Flights arriving at COS that month were on time 79.4% of the time (1,227 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 47%, late-arriving aircraft 31% and national aviation system 21%.

Every scheduled departure from COS in October 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

October 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureOct 2025Oct 2024COS, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time83.5%87.5%79.1%80.0%
Arrived on time83.1%88.3%79.8%79.1%
Cancelled0.2%0.0%1.1%0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)11.5 min10.1 min16.8 min13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day41383620,195
Scheduled departures1,2271,14113,185605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines49640%84.1%2.1 min0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines41834%81.6%2.4 min0.2%
AA American Airlines938%80.6%1.1 min1.1%
UA United Airlines887%78.4%3.2 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines544%96.3%-6.1 min1.9%
MQ Envoy Air514%84.3%5.0 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air272%85.2%5.9 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
COS–DENColorado Springs to Denver45079.6%2.0 min0.0%
COS–DFWColorado Springs to Dallas/Fort Worth18582.7%10.5 min0.5%
COS–ORDColorado Springs to Chicago9380.6%3.0 min0.0%
COS–PHXColorado Springs to Phoenix8677.9%5.4 min0.0%
COS–LASColorado Springs to Las Vegas7574.7%6.0 min0.0%
COS–DALColorado Springs to Dallas7487.8%-2.8 min1.4%
COS–SLCColorado Springs to Salt Lake City6198.4%-11.6 min0.0%
COS–ATLColorado Springs to Atlanta5496.3%-6.1 min1.9%
COS–IAHColorado Springs to Houston3694.4%-6.8 min0.0%
COS–MDWColorado Springs to Chicago3190.3%-2.5 min0.0%
COS–BWIColorado Springs to Baltimore2696.2%-7.2 min0.0%
COS–SANColorado Springs to San Diego2176.2%9.0 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), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Oct 2025Minutes
Air carrier47.0%34.0%6,117
Late-arriving aircraft30.5%39.7%3,970
National Aviation System20.6%22.9%2,676
Extreme weather2.0%3.3%255
Security0.0%0.1%0
13,018 delay minutes on 201 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 October 2025?

83.5% of 1,227 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024, 87.5% of 1,141 departures left on time and 0.0% were cancelled, against 83.5% and 0.2% in October 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for October 2025; 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.