On-Time Report

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Airport month · March 2024

Detroit Metro Wayne County in March 2024

83.3%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 10,760 domestic departures from Detroit Metro Wayne County (DTW). 83.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.1% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so DTW departures were 4.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at DTW that month were on time 83.2% of the time (10,758 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 45%, late-arriving aircraft 26% and national aviation system 25%.

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

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

MeasureMar 2024Year earlierDTW, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time83.3%—77.3%78.5%
Arrived on time83.1%—75.4%78.3%
Cancelled0.3%—1.9%0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)11.9 min—17.7 min15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day359—33419,726
Scheduled departures10,760—121,889591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DL Delta Air Lines4,86545%82.2%1.9 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines1,83217%85.6%1.0 min0.1%
9E Endeavor Air1,23111%89.3%-3.7 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines9389%75.5%5.5 min1.1%
AA American Airlines4885%79.5%5.7 min1.2%
YX Republic Airline3733%92.2%-10.4 min0.3%
WN Southwest Airlines3543%82.5%0.9 min0.6%
F9 Frontier Airlines2272%69.6%11.6 min1.8%
UA United Airlines1892%92.1%-11.9 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines1061%85.8%2.1 min0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways941%79.8%-0.7 min1.1%
MQ Envoy Air320%62.5%17.4 min6.3%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DTW–ORDDetroit to Chicago45083.8%-0.2 min0.0%
DTW–MCODetroit to Orlando40770.8%14.8 min1.0%
DTW–ATLDetroit to Atlanta40084.8%2.1 min0.3%
DTW–CLTDetroit to Charlotte35484.5%7.0 min0.6%
DTW–LGADetroit to New York32384.5%-3.5 min0.0%
DTW–FLLDetroit to Fort Lauderdale28171.2%9.2 min1.1%
DTW–TPADetroit to Tampa28164.4%26.9 min0.4%
DTW–RSWDetroit to Fort Myers27673.2%11.9 min1.4%
DTW–DFWDetroit to Dallas/Fort Worth27478.8%0.0 min0.7%
DTW–EWRDetroit to Newark26490.5%-7.7 min0.4%
DTW–LASDetroit to Las Vegas26377.9%2.2 min0.0%
DTW–DENDetroit to Denver24387.2%-6.6 min0.8%

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 categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Mar 2024Minutes
Air carrier45.0%32.1%51,862
Late-arriving aircraft25.7%42.1%29,600
National Aviation System25.4%21.4%29,269
Extreme weather3.8%4.2%4,388
Security0.0%0.2%18
115,137 delay minutes on 1,768 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left DTW on time in March 2024?

83.3% of 10,760 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.1% 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 DTW · methodology · corrections.