Capital Region 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 104 domestic departures from Capital Region International (LAN). 80.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.7% reached their destination on time; 1.9% were cancelled.

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

Flights arriving at LAN that month were on time 75.0% of the time (104 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 59%, air carrier 23% and extreme weather 10%.

On time 83.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.4%
Cancelled 1.9%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from LAN 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	LAN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	80.8%	—	75.7%	80.5%
Arrived on time	83.7%	—	73.6%	80.1%
Cancelled	1.9%	—	2.8%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.5 min	—	28.4 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	4	—	5	18,978
Scheduled departures	104	—	1,904	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	60	58%	88.3%	-2.3 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	26	25%	69.2%	10.0 min	3.8%
9E Endeavor Air	18	17%	88.9%	-5.7 min	5.6%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LAN–DTW	Lansing to Detroit	78	88.5%	-3.1 min	1.3%
LAN–DCA	Lansing to Washington	26	69.2%	10.0 min	3.8%

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), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	23.2%	36.4%	223
Late-arriving aircraft	59.1%	38.3%	569
National Aviation System	7.4%	19.9%	71
Extreme weather	10.3%	5.1%	99
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

962 delay minutes on 15 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 LAN on time in September 2023?

80.8% of 104 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.7% 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 LAN · methodology · corrections.