Durango La Plata County in March 2024

87.1%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 279 domestic departures from Durango La Plata County (DRO). 87.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.3% reached their destination on time; 1.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so DRO departures were 8.6 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at DRO that month were on time 85.3% of the time (279 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 48%, national aviation system 26% and extreme weather 15%.

On time 80.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.3%
Cancelled 1.4%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from DRO in March 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

March 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	DRO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	87.1%	—	80.5%	78.5%
Arrived on time	80.3%	—	79.5%	78.3%
Cancelled	1.4%	—	1.3%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	7.4 min	—	17.9 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	9	—	13	19,726
Scheduled departures	279	—	4,613	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	217	78%	79.3%	0.9 min	0.9%
UA United Airlines	62	22%	83.9%	-4.1 min	3.2%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DRO–DEN	Durango to Denver	124	85.5%	-5.9 min	3.2%
DRO–PHX	Durango to Phoenix	93	73.1%	8.3 min	0.0%
DRO–DFW	Durango to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	80.6%	-2.0 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	47.6%	32.1%	1,236
Late-arriving aircraft	12.2%	42.1%	316
National Aviation System	25.5%	21.4%	663
Extreme weather	14.7%	4.2%	382
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

2,597 delay minutes on 51 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 March 2024?

87.1% of 279 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 2023 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 March 2024; 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.