Jackson Medgar Wiley Evers International in March 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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 556 domestic departures from Jackson Medgar Wiley Evers International (JAN). 80.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.2% reached their destination on time; 1.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so JAN departures were 2.3 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at JAN that month were on time 76.4% of the time (556 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 43%, air carrier 29% and extreme weather 17%.

On time 80.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.5%
Cancelled 1.3%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from JAN 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	JAN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	80.8%	—	80.8%	78.5%
Arrived on time	80.2%	—	81.9%	78.3%
Cancelled	1.3%	—	2.1%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	16.2 min	—	15.6 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	19	—	16	19,726
Scheduled departures	556	—	5,883	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	190	34%	84.2%	-0.5 min	0.5%
DL Delta Air Lines	176	32%	86.9%	0.5 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	92	17%	77.2%	23.3 min	3.3%
MQ Envoy Air	85	15%	61.2%	13.8 min	2.4%
OO SkyWest Airlines	13	2%	76.9%	0.3 min	7.7%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
JAN–ATL	Jackson/Vicksburg to Atlanta	253	85.8%	-0.1 min	0.0%
JAN–DFW	Jackson/Vicksburg to Dallas/Fort Worth	128	64.8%	20.5 min	4.7%
JAN–HOU	Jackson/Vicksburg to Houston	82	87.8%	-3.6 min	0.0%
JAN–CLT	Jackson/Vicksburg to Charlotte	31	71.0%	12.4 min	0.0%
JAN–DCA	Jackson/Vicksburg to Washington	31	90.3%	10.9 min	0.0%
JAN–BWI	Jackson/Vicksburg to Baltimore	26	80.8%	11.7 min	0.0%
JAN–MCO	Jackson/Vicksburg to Orlando	5	60.0%	0.8 min	20.0%

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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	28.8%	32.1%	2,404
Late-arriving aircraft	42.5%	42.1%	3,551
National Aviation System	11.7%	21.4%	975
Extreme weather	17.0%	4.2%	1,417
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

8,347 delay minutes on 103 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 JAN on time in March 2024?

80.8% of 556 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.2% 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 JAN · methodology · corrections.