Columbia Regional in August 2023

91.0%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 August 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 111 domestic departures from Columbia Regional (COU). 91.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 89.2% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 76.9% arrived on time, so COU departures were 14.3 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at COU that month were on time 91.0% of the time (111 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 49%, extreme weather 22% and national aviation system 17%.

On time 89.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 10.8%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from COU in August 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

August 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Aug 2023	Year earlier	COU, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Aug 2023
Departed on time	91.0%	—	77.7%	76.7%
Arrived on time	89.2%	—	75.6%	76.9%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	3.1%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.2 min	—	20.5 min	17.3 min
Scheduled departures a day	4	—	10	20,100
Scheduled departures	111	—	3,635	602,987

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	99	89%	88.9%	-4.4 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	12	11%	91.7%	24.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
COU–DFW	Columbia to Dallas/Fort Worth	91	89.0%	-2.3 min	0.0%
COU–ORD	Columbia to Chicago	20	90.0%	3.6 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), August 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Aug 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	49.1%	36.7%	462
Late-arriving aircraft	12.2%	42.2%	115
National Aviation System	17.1%	15.7%	161
Extreme weather	21.5%	5.1%	202
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

940 delay minutes on 12 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 COU on time in August 2023?

91.0% of 111 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 89.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 76.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

August 2022 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 August 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for COU · methodology · corrections.