Durango La Plata County in September 2023

86.3%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 September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 320 domestic departures from Durango La Plata County (DRO). 86.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.8% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so DRO departures were 5.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at DRO that month were on time 84.4% of the time (320 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 40%, air carrier 34% and national aviation system 19%.

On time 87.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 11.9%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from DRO in September 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	DRO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	86.3%	—	80.5%	80.5%
Arrived on time	87.8%	—	79.5%	80.1%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	1.3%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	11.8 min	—	17.9 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	11	—	13	18,978
Scheduled departures	320	—	4,613	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	290	91%	86.9%	0.9 min	0.3%
UA United Airlines	30	9%	96.7%	-13.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DRO–DEN	Durango to Denver	120	83.3%	-0.1 min	0.8%
DRO–DFW	Durango to Dallas/Fort Worth	116	88.8%	3.1 min	0.0%
DRO–PHX	Durango to Phoenix	84	92.9%	-6.0 min	0.0%

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), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	34.0%	36.4%	1,190
Late-arriving aircraft	39.9%	38.3%	1,397
National Aviation System	18.8%	19.9%	660
Extreme weather	7.3%	5.1%	255
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

3,502 delay minutes on 38 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 DRO on time in September 2023?

86.3% of 320 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

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