Ketchikan International in September 2023

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 September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 219 domestic departures from Ketchikan International (KTN). 80.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.6% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so KTN departures were level with the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at KTN that month were on time 84.5% of the time (219 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 63%, security 16% and air carrier 10%.

On time 82.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 17.4%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	KTN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	80.8%	—	79.3%	80.5%
Arrived on time	82.6%	—	79.3%	80.1%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	2.9%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	11.8 min	—	13.4 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	7	—	7	18,978
Scheduled departures	219	—	2,392	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AS Alaska Airlines	215	98%	82.8%	1.5 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	4	2%	75.0%	9.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
KTN–SEA	Ketchikan to Seattle	129	84.5%	0.0 min	0.0%
KTN–JNU	Ketchikan to Juneau	30	93.3%	-12.1 min	0.0%
KTN–SIT	Ketchikan to Sitka	30	70.0%	15.7 min	0.0%
KTN–WRG	Ketchikan to Wrangell	30	76.7%	8.4 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

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

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	9.9%	36.4%	214
Late-arriving aircraft	62.8%	38.3%	1,353
National Aviation System	7.8%	19.9%	168
Extreme weather	3.8%	5.1%	81
Security	15.7%	0.2%	338

2,154 delay minutes on 38 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 September 2023?

80.8% of 219 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

September 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 September 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.