Columbia Regional in January 2025

66.9%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 January 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 148 domestic departures from Columbia Regional (COU). 66.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 62.8% reached their destination on time; 9.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so COU departures were 12.4 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 131 departures with 62.6% leaving on time: a change of +4.3 points, with flights up 13%.

Flights arriving at COU that month were on time 66.9% of the time (148 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 35%, extreme weather 27% and late-arriving aircraft 23%.

On time 62.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 27.7%
Cancelled 9.5%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from COU in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Jan 2025	Jan 2024	COU, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time	66.9%	62.6%	77.7%	79.3%
Arrived on time	62.8%	58.8%	75.6%	78.6%
Cancelled	9.5%	15.3%	3.1%	3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	22.9 min	27.2 min	20.5 min	14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	5	4	10	17,992
Scheduled departures	148	131	3,635	539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	117	79%	65.8%	14.4 min	9.4%
OO SkyWest Airlines	31	21%	51.6%	22.8 min	9.7%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
COU–DFW	Columbia to Dallas/Fort Worth	91	61.5%	13.8 min	11.0%
COU–ORD	Columbia to Chicago	57	64.9%	19.8 min	7.0%

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), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	35.3%	36.2%	1,174
Late-arriving aircraft	22.6%	34.7%	750
National Aviation System	15.2%	19.9%	506
Extreme weather	26.9%	9.1%	895
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

3,325 delay minutes on 41 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 January 2025?

66.9% of 148 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 62.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 62.6% of 131 departures left on time and 15.3% were cancelled, against 66.9% and 9.5% in January 2025.

Provenance

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