LaGuardia in February 2024

83.9%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 February 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 12,644 domestic departures from LaGuardia (LGA). 83.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.0% reached their destination on time; 2.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 84.0% of flights departed on time and 83.4% arrived on time, so LGA departures were level with the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LGA that month were on time 82.7% of the time (12,641 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, air carrier 33% and national aviation system 17%.

On time 85.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.8%
Cancelled 2.1%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Feb 2024	Year earlier	LGA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2024
Departed on time	83.9%	—	72.6%	84.0%
Arrived on time	85.0%	—	69.9%	83.4%
Cancelled	2.1%	—	4.6%	0.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	11.6 min	—	19.3 min	11.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	422	—	372	17,307
Scheduled departures	12,644	—	135,840	519,221

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
YX Republic Airline	2,925	23%	89.2%	-13.6 min	2.5%
9E Endeavor Air	2,723	22%	86.6%	-9.8 min	3.1%
DL Delta Air Lines	2,040	16%	83.2%	-4.7 min	0.9%
AA American Airlines	1,431	11%	81.3%	0.6 min	1.1%
B6 JetBlue Airways	1,022	8%	75.8%	4.8 min	1.4%
WN Southwest Airlines	915	7%	89.6%	-15.2 min	2.3%
NK Spirit Airlines	593	5%	81.3%	-1.0 min	2.2%
UA United Airlines	568	4%	87.1%	-11.0 min	1.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines	325	3%	82.8%	-2.7 min	2.5%
F9 Frontier Airlines	102	1%	71.6%	0.8 min	2.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LGA–ORD	New York to Chicago	810	89.4%	-11.7 min	1.2%
LGA–BOS	New York to Boston	647	85.2%	-2.2 min	2.5%
LGA–ATL	New York to Atlanta	622	86.0%	-10.6 min	1.8%
LGA–MIA	New York to Miami	485	77.5%	1.1 min	0.4%
LGA–MCO	New York to Orlando	472	74.2%	4.6 min	1.7%
LGA–CLT	New York to Charlotte	457	86.0%	-7.1 min	2.0%
LGA–DFW	New York to Dallas/Fort Worth	453	82.3%	-5.9 min	0.9%
LGA–FLL	New York to Fort Lauderdale	430	69.5%	12.3 min	1.6%
LGA–DCA	New York to Washington	369	88.1%	-6.5 min	2.2%
LGA–DEN	New York to Denver	352	83.2%	-4.0 min	1.1%
LGA–DTW	New York to Detroit	316	88.6%	-7.4 min	1.6%
LGA–BNA	New York to Nashville	312	87.8%	-12.0 min	1.9%

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), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	32.6%	35.9%	40,178
Late-arriving aircraft	48.7%	36.9%	60,077
National Aviation System	16.6%	21.7%	20,486
Extreme weather	2.1%	5.3%	2,597
Security	0.0%	0.3%	48

123,386 delay minutes on 1,624 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 February 2024?

83.9% of 12,644 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 84.0% and 83.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 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 February 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.