Jackson Medgar Wiley Evers International in March 2025

80.3%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 476 domestic departures from Jackson Medgar Wiley Evers International (JAN). 80.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.6% reached their destination on time; 2.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so JAN departures were level with the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 556 departures with 80.8% leaving on time: a change of −0.5 points, with flights down 14%.

Flights arriving at JAN that month were on time 72.4% of the time (475 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 36%, late-arriving aircraft 31% and extreme weather 26%.

On time 79.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.3%
Cancelled 2.1%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from JAN in March 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

March 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	JAN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time	80.3%	80.8%	80.8%	79.9%
Arrived on time	79.6%	80.2%	81.9%	79.3%
Cancelled	2.1%	1.3%	2.1%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	16.8 min	16.2 min	15.6 min	14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	16	19	16	20,029
Scheduled departures	476	556	5,883	600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	169	36%	78.1%	20.1 min	1.8%
DL Delta Air Lines	135	28%	80.0%	-1.1 min	1.5%
WN Southwest Airlines	115	24%	86.1%	-3.6 min	0.9%
OO SkyWest Airlines	57	12%	70.2%	3.0 min	7.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
JAN–ATL	Jackson/Vicksburg to Atlanta	166	81.3%	0.4 min	1.2%
JAN–DFW	Jackson/Vicksburg to Dallas/Fort Worth	148	74.3%	14.8 min	4.7%
JAN–HOU	Jackson/Vicksburg to Houston	62	85.5%	-8.3 min	1.6%
JAN–CLT	Jackson/Vicksburg to Charlotte	52	80.8%	21.1 min	0.0%
JAN–DCA	Jackson/Vicksburg to Washington	26	76.9%	12.1 min	0.0%
JAN–BWI	Jackson/Vicksburg to Baltimore	22	86.4%	-5.5 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), March 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	35.7%	33.0%	2,601
Late-arriving aircraft	31.3%	39.2%	2,281
National Aviation System	7.5%	21.9%	545
Extreme weather	25.5%	5.9%	1,862
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

7,289 delay minutes on 87 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 2025?

80.3% of 476 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 80.8% of 556 departures left on time and 1.3% were cancelled, against 80.3% and 2.1% in March 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for March 2025; 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.