Durango La Plata County in October 2025

82.3%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 355 domestic departures from Durango La Plata County (DRO). 82.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.6% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so DRO departures were 2.3 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 356 departures with 85.7% leaving on time: a change of −3.4 points, with flights down 0%.

Flights arriving at DRO that month were on time 79.7% of the time (355 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 43%, air carrier 39% and national aviation system 12%.

On time 80.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.6%
Cancelled 0.8%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2025	Oct 2024	DRO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time	82.3%	85.7%	80.5%	80.0%
Arrived on time	80.6%	87.1%	79.5%	79.1%
Cancelled	0.8%	0.0%	1.3%	0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.6 min	17.1 min	17.9 min	13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	12	12	13	20,195
Scheduled departures	355	356	4,613	605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	231	65%	80.5%	2.1 min	0.9%
AA American Airlines	62	17%	74.2%	15.7 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	62	17%	87.1%	-1.3 min	1.6%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DRO–DEN	Durango to Denver	185	82.7%	0.4 min	0.5%
DRO–DFW	Durango to Dallas/Fort Worth	92	76.1%	8.9 min	2.2%
DRO–PHX	Durango to Phoenix	78	80.8%	6.6 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), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	39.3%	34.0%	1,687
Late-arriving aircraft	43.3%	39.7%	1,861
National Aviation System	12.4%	22.9%	531
Extreme weather	5.0%	3.3%	215
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

4,294 delay minutes on 66 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 October 2025?

82.3% of 355 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024, 85.7% of 356 departures left on time and 0.0% were cancelled, against 82.3% and 0.8% in October 2025.

Provenance

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