Valley International in January 2024

80.8%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 338 domestic departures from Valley International (HRL). 80.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.2% reached their destination on time; 1.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so HRL departures were 6.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at HRL that month were on time 79.2% of the time (337 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 54%, national aviation system 23% and air carrier 14%.

On time 80.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.3%
Cancelled 1.2%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from HRL in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	HRL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	80.8%	—	80.8%	74.0%
Arrived on time	80.2%	—	82.1%	72.9%
Cancelled	1.2%	—	1.3%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.2 min	—	13.0 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	11	—	11	18,242
Scheduled departures	338	—	3,925	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	177	52%	81.9%	6.7 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	122	36%	74.6%	8.6 min	3.3%
DL Delta Air Lines	31	9%	93.5%	-7.4 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	8	2%	75.0%	0.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
HRL–DFW	Harlingen/San Benito to Dallas/Fort Worth	122	74.6%	8.6 min	3.3%
HRL–HOU	Harlingen/San Benito to Houston	115	80.0%	8.6 min	0.0%
HRL–AUS	Harlingen/San Benito to Austin	54	88.9%	2.4 min	0.0%
HRL–MSP	Harlingen/San Benito to Minneapolis	31	93.5%	-7.4 min	0.0%
HRL–DAL	Harlingen/San Benito to Dallas	8	62.5%	7.1 min	0.0%
HRL–IAH	Harlingen/San Benito to Houston	8	75.0%	0.5 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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	13.8%	32.6%	607
Late-arriving aircraft	53.6%	39.0%	2,361
National Aviation System	22.5%	17.9%	992
Extreme weather	10.2%	10.3%	448
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

4,408 delay minutes on 62 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 HRL on time in January 2024?

80.8% of 338 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

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