Fairbanks International in March 2024

85.6%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 305 domestic departures from Fairbanks International (FAI). 85.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.6% 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 FAI departures were 7.1 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at FAI that month were on time 80.7% of the time (306 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 64%, air carrier 20% and national aviation system 16%.

On time 85.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.1%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from FAI 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	FAI, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	85.6%	—	83.2%	78.5%
Arrived on time	85.6%	—	82.0%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	1.0%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	8.0 min	—	12.6 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	10	—	11	19,726
Scheduled departures	305	—	4,165	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AS Alaska Airlines	274	90%	87.6%	-1.6 min	0.4%
DL Delta Air Lines	31	10%	67.7%	14.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
FAI–SEA	Fairbanks to Seattle	194	83.0%	2.6 min	0.0%
FAI–ANC	Fairbanks to Anchorage	111	90.1%	-4.4 min	0.9%

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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	19.7%	32.1%	421
Late-arriving aircraft	63.9%	42.1%	1,364
National Aviation System	16.3%	21.4%	348
Extreme weather	0.0%	4.2%	0
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

2,133 delay minutes on 43 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 FAI on time in March 2024?

85.6% of 305 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.6% 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 FAI · methodology · corrections.