Ketchikan International in December 2023

86.3%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 December 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 182 domestic departures from Ketchikan International (KTN). 86.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.7% reached their destination on time; 4.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.1% of flights departed on time and 83.8% arrived on time, so KTN departures were 3.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at KTN that month were on time 80.2% of the time (182 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 80%, national aviation system 16% and air carrier 5%.

On time 85.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 8.8%
Cancelled 4.9%
Diverted 0.5%

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

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

Measure	Dec 2023	Year earlier	KTN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2023
Departed on time	86.3%	—	79.3%	83.1%
Arrived on time	85.7%	—	79.3%	83.8%
Cancelled	4.9%	—	2.9%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	5.0 min	—	13.4 min	11.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	6	—	7	19,013
Scheduled departures	182	—	2,392	570,394

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AS Alaska Airlines	182	100%	85.7%	-10.5 min	4.9%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
KTN–SEA	Ketchikan to Seattle	91	87.9%	-14.1 min	4.4%
KTN–SIT	Ketchikan to Sitka	31	80.6%	-3.5 min	6.5%
KTN–JNU	Ketchikan to Juneau	30	83.3%	-14.4 min	10.0%
KTN–WRG	Ketchikan to Wrangell	30	86.7%	-3.4 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), December 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Dec 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	4.7%	37.1%	33
Late-arriving aircraft	79.5%	38.8%	556
National Aviation System	15.7%	17.6%	110
Extreme weather	0.0%	6.2%	0
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

699 delay minutes on 16 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 December 2023?

86.3% of 182 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.1% and 83.8%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

December 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 December 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.