Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field in September 2023

83.7%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 September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 1,001 domestic departures from Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field (LIT). 83.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.9% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so LIT departures were 3.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LIT that month were on time 78.4% of the time (1,003 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 45%, late-arriving aircraft 37% and national aviation system 13%.

On time 80.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.3%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.4%

Every scheduled departure from LIT in September 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	LIT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	83.7%	—	79.7%	80.5%
Arrived on time	80.9%	—	79.2%	80.1%
Cancelled	0.4%	—	1.8%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	15.5 min	—	16.3 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	33	—	37	18,978
Scheduled departures	1,001	—	13,424	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	287	29%	80.1%	8.1 min	0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	224	22%	89.7%	-4.2 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	165	16%	90.3%	9.0 min	0.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines	165	16%	71.5%	12.8 min	0.6%
AA American Airlines	49	5%	81.6%	37.1 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	35	3%	48.6%	28.4 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	29	3%	69.0%	13.4 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	26	3%	73.1%	5.8 min	7.7%
F9 Frontier Airlines	13	1%	76.9%	3.5 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	8	1%	75.0%	78.4 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LIT–DFW	Little Rock to Dallas/Fort Worth	240	75.4%	18.2 min	0.0%
LIT–ATL	Little Rock to Atlanta	199	89.9%	6.5 min	0.5%
LIT–DEN	Little Rock to Denver	110	79.1%	5.5 min	0.9%
LIT–CLT	Little Rock to Charlotte	89	79.8%	7.4 min	0.0%
LIT–ORD	Little Rock to Chicago	84	65.5%	21.8 min	0.0%
LIT–DAL	Little Rock to Dallas	83	86.7%	-6.5 min	0.0%
LIT–STL	Little Rock to St. Louis	55	94.5%	-6.9 min	0.0%
LIT–LGA	Little Rock to New York	50	74.0%	8.1 min	4.0%
LIT–DCA	Little Rock to Washington	30	86.7%	-2.0 min	0.0%
LIT–IAH	Little Rock to Houston	26	84.6%	-3.0 min	0.0%
LIT–LAS	Little Rock to Las Vegas	26	80.8%	8.7 min	0.0%
LIT–SFB	Little Rock to Sanford	8	75.0%	78.4 min	0.0%

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), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	44.9%	36.4%	6,934
Late-arriving aircraft	36.5%	38.3%	5,637
National Aviation System	13.0%	19.9%	2,017
Extreme weather	5.6%	5.1%	869
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

15,457 delay minutes on 183 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 LIT on time in September 2023?

83.7% of 1,001 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

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