Jackson Medgar Wiley Evers International in April 2024

82.0%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 605 domestic departures from Jackson Medgar Wiley Evers International (JAN). 82.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.5% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so JAN departures were 1.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at JAN that month were on time 78.7% of the time (606 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 38%, air carrier 37% and national aviation system 15%.

On time 82.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.7%
Cancelled 0.8%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from JAN 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	JAN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time	82.0%	—	80.8%	80.5%
Arrived on time	82.5%	—	81.9%	80.2%
Cancelled	0.8%	—	2.1%	0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	17.8 min	—	15.6 min	14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	20	—	16	19,406
Scheduled departures	605	—	5,883	582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	187	31%	86.1%	0.0 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	181	30%	89.0%	0.2 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	155	26%	76.8%	19.0 min	2.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines	47	8%	78.7%	22.6 min	2.1%
MQ Envoy Air	35	6%	60.0%	27.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
JAN–ATL	Jackson/Vicksburg to Atlanta	259	87.6%	0.5 min	0.0%
JAN–DFW	Jackson/Vicksburg to Dallas/Fort Worth	166	70.5%	30.2 min	3.0%
JAN–HOU	Jackson/Vicksburg to Houston	85	85.9%	1.1 min	0.0%
JAN–CLT	Jackson/Vicksburg to Charlotte	45	82.2%	0.6 min	0.0%
JAN–DCA	Jackson/Vicksburg to Washington	26	88.5%	-0.6 min	0.0%
JAN–BWI	Jackson/Vicksburg to Baltimore	23	91.3%	-7.7 min	0.0%
JAN–MCO	Jackson/Vicksburg to Orlando	1	100.0%	-4.0 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	36.8%	33.6%	3,787
Late-arriving aircraft	38.1%	41.0%	3,922
National Aviation System	14.6%	20.0%	1,504
Extreme weather	10.5%	5.1%	1,082
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

10,295 delay minutes on 101 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 April 2024?

82.0% of 605 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.5% 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 JAN · methodology · corrections.