Ketchikan International in August 2023

83.9%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 August 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 279 domestic departures from Ketchikan International (KTN). 83.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.7% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 76.9% arrived on time, so KTN departures were 7.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at KTN that month were on time 87.1% of the time (279 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 53%, air carrier 30% and national aviation system 11%.

On time 81.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 17.9%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from KTN in August 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

August 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Aug 2023	Year earlier	KTN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Aug 2023
Departed on time	83.9%	—	79.3%	76.7%
Arrived on time	81.7%	—	79.3%	76.9%
Cancelled	0.4%	—	2.9%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.3 min	—	13.4 min	17.3 min
Scheduled departures a day	9	—	7	20,100
Scheduled departures	279	—	2,392	602,987

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AS Alaska Airlines	248	89%	82.7%	4.5 min	0.4%
OO SkyWest Airlines	31	11%	74.2%	10.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
KTN–SEA	Ketchikan to Seattle	186	82.8%	6.7 min	0.0%
KTN–JNU	Ketchikan to Juneau	31	90.3%	-9.0 min	3.2%
KTN–SIT	Ketchikan to Sitka	31	80.6%	8.2 min	0.0%
KTN–WRG	Ketchikan to Wrangell	31	67.7%	6.0 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), August 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Aug 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	30.4%	36.7%	825
Late-arriving aircraft	52.9%	42.2%	1,434
National Aviation System	11.3%	15.7%	307
Extreme weather	4.4%	5.1%	119
Security	0.9%	0.2%	25

2,710 delay minutes on 50 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 KTN on time in August 2023?

83.9% of 279 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 76.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

August 2022 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 August 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for KTN · methodology · corrections.