LaGuardia in January 2024

75.2%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 12,700 domestic departures from LaGuardia (LGA). 75.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 74.5% reached their destination on time; 4.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so LGA departures were 1.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LGA that month were on time 73.5% of the time (12,718 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 45%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 21%.

On time 74.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 20.7%
Cancelled 4.6%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from LGA in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	LGA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	75.2%	—	72.6%	74.0%
Arrived on time	74.5%	—	69.9%	72.9%
Cancelled	4.6%	—	4.6%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	18.0 min	—	19.3 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	423	—	372	18,242
Scheduled departures	12,700	—	135,840	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
YX Republic Airline	3,299	26%	78.9%	-2.0 min	5.5%
9E Endeavor Air	2,394	19%	71.1%	3.9 min	6.7%
DL Delta Air Lines	2,109	17%	76.1%	7.6 min	1.1%
AA American Airlines	1,368	11%	73.5%	9.3 min	3.7%
B6 JetBlue Airways	1,034	8%	71.8%	10.0 min	1.9%
WN Southwest Airlines	995	8%	72.1%	1.0 min	7.4%
NK Spirit Airlines	633	5%	74.9%	7.3 min	3.2%
UA United Airlines	527	4%	75.7%	10.4 min	4.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines	239	2%	62.8%	17.9 min	9.6%
F9 Frontier Airlines	102	1%	58.8%	42.9 min	5.9%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LGA–ORD	New York to Chicago	789	71.7%	10.5 min	6.2%
LGA–ATL	New York to Atlanta	644	81.7%	0.0 min	0.8%
LGA–BOS	New York to Boston	604	73.0%	10.2 min	5.5%
LGA–MIA	New York to Miami	523	67.7%	14.1 min	2.1%
LGA–MCO	New York to Orlando	471	72.6%	14.5 min	2.3%
LGA–FLL	New York to Fort Lauderdale	461	71.1%	15.1 min	1.1%
LGA–CLT	New York to Charlotte	455	76.9%	2.2 min	3.5%
LGA–DFW	New York to Dallas/Fort Worth	452	68.4%	20.5 min	2.4%
LGA–DEN	New York to Denver	378	81.5%	-3.9 min	1.1%
LGA–DCA	New York to Washington	352	79.8%	-2.4 min	6.0%
LGA–DTW	New York to Detroit	342	78.7%	0.0 min	4.1%
LGA–BNA	New York to Nashville	327	72.2%	0.9 min	11.9%

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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	28.3%	32.6%	62,646
Late-arriving aircraft	44.6%	39.0%	98,810
National Aviation System	21.4%	17.9%	47,407
Extreme weather	5.7%	10.3%	12,578
Security	0.1%	0.2%	301

221,742 delay minutes on 2,626 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 LGA on time in January 2024?

75.2% of 12,700 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 74.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 2023 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 January 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for LGA · methodology · corrections.