On-Time Report

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Airport month · July 2024

Detroit Metro Wayne County in July 2024

70.5%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 July 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 11,751 domestic departures from Detroit Metro Wayne County (DTW). 70.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 69.9% reached their destination on time; 4.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 68.5% of flights departed on time and 68.1% arrived on time, so DTW departures were 2.0 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at DTW that month were on time 70.5% of the time (11,751 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 56%, late-arriving aircraft 26% and national aviation system 15%.

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

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

MeasureJul 2024Year earlierDTW, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jul 2024
Departed on time70.5%—77.3%68.5%
Arrived on time69.9%—75.4%68.1%
Cancelled4.1%—1.9%2.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)23.6 min—17.7 min24.9 min
Scheduled departures a day392—33421,154
Scheduled departures11,751—121,889634,613

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DL Delta Air Lines5,44646%65.4%21.3 min6.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines2,18919%74.8%14.6 min0.2%
9E Endeavor Air1,0639%77.8%9.5 min4.5%
NK Spirit Airlines9328%70.8%11.1 min3.4%
AA American Airlines5825%70.1%23.9 min3.6%
YX Republic Airline5114%77.9%10.3 min2.3%
WN Southwest Airlines3623%72.4%10.6 min0.6%
F9 Frontier Airlines2292%58.5%23.2 min7.9%
UA United Airlines1461%71.2%15.5 min2.7%
MQ Envoy Air871%80.5%9.4 min4.6%
OH PSA Airlines861%69.8%27.5 min8.1%
AS Alaska Airlines621%82.3%6.9 min1.6%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DTW–ORDDetroit to Chicago47273.3%22.3 min2.8%
DTW–ATLDetroit to Atlanta44361.4%28.6 min5.9%
DTW–CLTDetroit to Charlotte35770.6%19.3 min3.1%
DTW–LGADetroit to New York35769.7%19.6 min5.0%
DTW–PHLDetroit to Philadelphia34268.7%15.3 min7.3%
DTW–DFWDetroit to Dallas/Fort Worth31860.1%20.2 min5.0%
DTW–LASDetroit to Las Vegas31168.8%14.7 min4.2%
DTW–LAXDetroit to Los Angeles29275.7%5.8 min4.8%
DTW–EWRDetroit to Newark29162.5%30.6 min6.2%
DTW–MCODetroit to Orlando27963.1%24.4 min3.9%
DTW–DENDetroit to Denver26869.4%16.8 min4.1%
DTW–BOSDetroit to Boston24569.0%10.0 min5.3%

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), July 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jul 2024Minutes
Air carrier56.2%36.6%142,264
Late-arriving aircraft26.1%42.7%66,018
National Aviation System15.3%16.0%38,610
Extreme weather2.3%4.6%5,832
Security0.1%0.1%268
252,992 delay minutes on 3,019 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 July 2024?

70.5% of 11,751 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 69.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 68.5% and 68.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

July 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 July 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.