Hilton Head Airport in April 2024

77.4%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 177 domestic departures from Hilton Head Airport (HHH). 77.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 76.8% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so HHH departures were 3.1 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at HHH that month were on time 79.7% of the time (177 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 65%, national aviation system 29% and air carrier 6%.

On time 76.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 21.5%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 1.1%

Every scheduled departure from HHH in April 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Apr 2024	Year earlier	HHH, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time	77.4%	—	79.6%	80.5%
Arrived on time	76.8%	—	79.7%	80.2%
Cancelled	0.6%	—	1.7%	0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.3 min	—	20.8 min	14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	6	—	7	19,406
Scheduled departures	177	—	2,373	582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	95	54%	69.5%	9.0 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	82	46%	85.4%	4.4 min	1.2%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
HHH–CLT	Hilton Head to Charlotte	87	67.8%	10.8 min	0.0%
HHH–DCA	Hilton Head to Washington	30	86.7%	1.7 min	0.0%
HHH–EWR	Hilton Head to Newark	30	76.7%	9.0 min	3.3%
HHH–ATL	Hilton Head to Atlanta	9	100.0%	-4.6 min	0.0%
HHH–LGA	Hilton Head to New York	9	100.0%	-11.1 min	0.0%
HHH–ORD	Hilton Head to Chicago	8	87.5%	12.5 min	0.0%
HHH–BOS	Hilton Head to Boston	4	75.0%	2.8 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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	5.8%	33.6%	130
Late-arriving aircraft	65.3%	41.0%	1,465
National Aviation System	28.8%	20.0%	647
Extreme weather	0.1%	5.1%	2
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

2,244 delay minutes on 38 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 HHH on time in April 2024?

77.4% of 177 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 76.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for HHH · methodology · corrections.