Columbia Regional in November 2023

86.6%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 November 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 119 domestic departures from Columbia Regional (COU). 86.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.6% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 86.0% of flights departed on time and 86.2% arrived on time, so COU departures were 0.6 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at COU that month were on time 90.8% of the time (119 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, air carrier 33% and national aviation system 14%.

On time 86.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 13.4%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Nov 2023	Year earlier	COU, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Nov 2023
Departed on time	86.6%	—	77.7%	86.0%
Arrived on time	86.6%	—	75.6%	86.2%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	3.1%	0.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.7 min	—	20.5 min	9.4 min
Scheduled departures a day	4	—	10	18,793
Scheduled departures	119	—	3,635	563,777

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	119	100%	86.6%	1.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
COU–DFW	Columbia to Dallas/Fort Worth	89	87.6%	-1.4 min	0.0%
COU–ORD	Columbia to Chicago	30	83.3%	8.7 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), November 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Nov 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	33.4%	42.5%	342
Late-arriving aircraft	48.8%	37.3%	499
National Aviation System	14.0%	16.2%	143
Extreme weather	3.8%	3.7%	39
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

1,023 delay minutes on 16 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 November 2023?

86.6% of 119 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 86.0% and 86.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

November 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 November 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.