LaGuardia in March 2024

82.7%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 13,366 domestic departures from LaGuardia (LGA). 82.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.6% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so LGA departures were 4.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LGA that month were on time 81.2% of the time (13,366 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 48%, air carrier 30% and national aviation system 20%.

On time 84.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.9%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	LGA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	82.7%	—	72.6%	78.5%
Arrived on time	84.6%	—	69.9%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.4%	—	4.6%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.5 min	—	19.3 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	446	—	372	19,726
Scheduled departures	13,366	—	135,840	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
YX Republic Airline	3,030	23%	90.9%	-11.5 min	0.1%
9E Endeavor Air	2,768	21%	88.0%	-8.7 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	2,163	16%	84.1%	-4.2 min	0.1%
AA American Airlines	1,555	12%	81.1%	3.4 min	1.2%
B6 JetBlue Airways	1,116	8%	68.8%	10.2 min	1.2%
WN Southwest Airlines	951	7%	85.0%	-3.9 min	0.1%
NK Spirit Airlines	652	5%	77.9%	1.6 min	0.9%
UA United Airlines	631	5%	91.3%	-14.3 min	0.5%
OO SkyWest Airlines	375	3%	80.8%	1.6 min	0.3%
F9 Frontier Airlines	125	1%	59.2%	33.1 min	1.6%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LGA–ORD	New York to Chicago	897	86.8%	-7.2 min	0.4%
LGA–BOS	New York to Boston	682	83.0%	-1.8 min	0.1%
LGA–ATL	New York to Atlanta	659	88.2%	-8.3 min	0.3%
LGA–MIA	New York to Miami	523	70.9%	14.4 min	2.1%
LGA–DFW	New York to Dallas/Fort Worth	514	80.2%	0.3 min	1.2%
LGA–MCO	New York to Orlando	489	70.1%	12.5 min	1.0%
LGA–CLT	New York to Charlotte	466	85.8%	-1.3 min	0.4%
LGA–FLL	New York to Fort Lauderdale	448	66.3%	14.8 min	1.1%
LGA–DCA	New York to Washington	384	91.4%	-10.1 min	0.3%
LGA–DEN	New York to Denver	373	87.9%	-13.6 min	0.5%
LGA–RDU	New York to Raleigh/Durham	328	86.9%	-5.9 min	0.3%
LGA–BNA	New York to Nashville	327	89.9%	-9.3 min	0.3%

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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	30.3%	32.1%	42,292
Late-arriving aircraft	47.6%	42.1%	66,485
National Aviation System	19.8%	21.4%	27,623
Extreme weather	2.2%	4.2%	3,062
Security	0.2%	0.2%	295

139,757 delay minutes on 1,986 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 March 2024?

82.7% of 13,366 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.