LaGuardia in April 2024

83.1%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 13,515 domestic departures from LaGuardia (LGA). 83.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.3% reached their destination on time; 1.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so LGA departures were 2.6 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LGA that month were on time 82.1% of the time (13,518 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 37%, late-arriving aircraft 36% and national aviation system 23%.

On time 83.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.1%
Cancelled 1.4%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Apr 2024	Year earlier	LGA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time	83.1%	—	72.6%	80.5%
Arrived on time	83.3%	—	69.9%	80.2%
Cancelled	1.4%	—	4.6%	0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.2 min	—	19.3 min	14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	451	—	372	19,406
Scheduled departures	13,515	—	135,840	582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
YX Republic Airline	3,192	24%	87.3%	-7.6 min	1.4%
9E Endeavor Air	2,787	21%	85.3%	-6.4 min	1.6%
DL Delta Air Lines	2,251	17%	82.8%	0.0 min	0.8%
AA American Airlines	1,496	11%	78.5%	6.9 min	1.6%
WN Southwest Airlines	936	7%	79.8%	3.9 min	0.6%
B6 JetBlue Airways	823	6%	80.6%	3.8 min	2.7%
UA United Airlines	732	5%	85.5%	-3.2 min	0.7%
NK Spirit Airlines	690	5%	81.6%	-0.2 min	1.7%
OO SkyWest Airlines	391	3%	80.1%	21.0 min	1.5%
F9 Frontier Airlines	217	2%	64.5%	12.6 min	4.1%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LGA–ORD	New York to Chicago	946	83.5%	1.7 min	1.3%
LGA–ATL	New York to Atlanta	706	82.7%	3.2 min	0.4%
LGA–BOS	New York to Boston	694	83.3%	-2.3 min	2.3%
LGA–DFW	New York to Dallas/Fort Worth	547	73.7%	9.6 min	1.8%
LGA–CLT	New York to Charlotte	506	84.2%	-2.6 min	1.8%
LGA–MIA	New York to Miami	484	83.1%	-4.6 min	2.1%
LGA–MCO	New York to Orlando	417	82.0%	-1.1 min	1.9%
LGA–BNA	New York to Nashville	390	86.9%	-3.4 min	1.3%
LGA–FLL	New York to Fort Lauderdale	386	79.0%	4.5 min	1.8%
LGA–IAH	New York to Houston	379	78.9%	7.7 min	0.3%
LGA–RDU	New York to Raleigh/Durham	368	77.7%	5.4 min	1.6%
LGA–DCA	New York to Washington	365	84.7%	-1.2 min	0.8%

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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	37.4%	33.6%	61,648
Late-arriving aircraft	35.5%	41.0%	58,452
National Aviation System	23.0%	20.0%	37,913
Extreme weather	3.9%	5.1%	6,450
Security	0.2%	0.2%	361

164,824 delay minutes on 2,040 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 April 2024?

83.1% of 13,515 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 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.