Durango La Plata County in May 2025

74.5%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 May 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 337 domestic departures from Durango La Plata County (DRO). 74.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 73.0% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 75.4% arrived on time, so DRO departures were 2.2 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in May 2024, the airport had 284 departures with 80.3% leaving on time: a change of −5.8 points, with flights up 19%.

Flights arriving at DRO that month were on time 74.2% of the time (337 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 34%, national aviation system 33% and late-arriving aircraft 17%.

On time 73.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 25.8%
Cancelled 0.9%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from DRO in May 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	May 2025	May 2024	DRO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2025
Departed on time	74.5%	80.3%	80.5%	76.7%
Arrived on time	73.0%	78.2%	79.5%	75.4%
Cancelled	0.9%	2.5%	1.3%	1.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	23.3 min	16.9 min	17.9 min	17.5 min
Scheduled departures a day	11	10	13	20,188
Scheduled departures	337	284	4,613	605,648

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	275	82%	72.0%	16.3 min	1.1%
UA United Airlines	62	18%	77.4%	11.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DRO–DEN	Durango to Denver	186	69.4%	18.2 min	0.5%
DRO–DFW	Durango to Dallas/Fort Worth	89	71.9%	19.3 min	2.2%
DRO–PHX	Durango to Phoenix	62	85.5%	1.2 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), May 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	34.1%	29.3%	2,668
Late-arriving aircraft	16.7%	37.8%	1,308
National Aviation System	33.3%	25.9%	2,609
Extreme weather	15.9%	6.9%	1,241
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

7,826 delay minutes on 87 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 May 2025?

74.5% of 337 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 73.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 75.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In May 2024, 80.3% of 284 departures left on time and 2.5% were cancelled, against 74.5% and 0.9% in May 2025.

Provenance

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