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Airport month · October 2023

Harry Reid International in October 2023

75.8%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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 17,503 domestic departures from Harry Reid International (LAS). 75.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 76.0% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so LAS departures were 8.0 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LAS that month were on time 78.5% of the time (17,498 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 41%, air carrier 36% and national aviation system 20%.

Every scheduled departure from LAS in October 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureOct 2023Year earlierLAS, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time75.8%—73.8%83.8%
Arrived on time76.0%—76.8%84.0%
Cancelled0.4%—0.9%0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)14.3 min—16.3 min11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day583—47419,966
Scheduled departures17,503—172,932598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines7,86745%71.6%8.9 min0.3%
NK Spirit Airlines2,67715%78.7%3.3 min1.1%
DL Delta Air Lines1,4098%87.7%-3.4 min0.1%
F9 Frontier Airlines1,3848%73.6%9.4 min0.5%
AA American Airlines1,2767%81.5%3.4 min0.6%
UA United Airlines1,2017%86.7%-2.6 min0.2%
G4 Allegiant Air6984%74.9%9.2 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines4152%77.1%6.8 min0.2%
B6 JetBlue Airways2972%64.6%32.9 min0.3%
OO SkyWest Airlines1611%69.6%19.0 min0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines1181%69.5%26.8 min1.7%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
LAS–LAXLas Vegas to Los Angeles89073.7%6.9 min0.7%
LAS–DENLas Vegas to Denver80975.2%8.3 min0.6%
LAS–PHXLas Vegas to Phoenix63776.5%7.0 min0.3%
LAS–SANLas Vegas to San Diego62467.5%15.0 min0.8%
LAS–SEALas Vegas to Seattle61179.5%5.6 min0.0%
LAS–DFWLas Vegas to Dallas/Fort Worth56176.8%4.5 min1.6%
LAS–ORDLas Vegas to Chicago52585.7%-2.1 min0.2%
LAS–SFOLas Vegas to San Francisco52575.2%7.1 min0.2%
LAS–SMFLas Vegas to Sacramento51772.3%8.8 min0.4%
LAS–ATLLas Vegas to Atlanta49685.7%-0.7 min0.8%
LAS–OAKLas Vegas to Oakland42676.1%6.6 min0.5%
LAS–SLCLas Vegas to Salt Lake City42681.0%4.3 min0.0%

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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Oct 2023Minutes
Air carrier36.1%41.3%79,257
Late-arriving aircraft40.8%40.5%89,395
National Aviation System20.4%14.4%44,648
Extreme weather2.6%3.7%5,662
Security0.2%0.2%396
219,358 delay minutes on 4,101 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left LAS on time in October 2023?

75.8% of 17,503 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 76.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

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