Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field in October 2023

83.6%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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 1,036 domestic departures from Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field (LIT). 83.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.6% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so LIT departures were level with the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LIT that month were on time 78.8% of the time (1,034 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 39%, air carrier 33% and national aviation system 14%.

On time 82.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.8%
Cancelled 0.5%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2023	Year earlier	LIT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time	83.6%	—	79.7%	83.8%
Arrived on time	82.6%	—	79.2%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.5%	—	1.8%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.4 min	—	16.3 min	11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	35	—	37	19,966
Scheduled departures	1,036	—	13,424	598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	318	31%	75.5%	8.2 min	0.9%
WN Southwest Airlines	240	23%	89.6%	-1.3 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	207	20%	79.7%	8.3 min	0.5%
DL Delta Air Lines	154	15%	90.3%	-0.6 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	34	3%	88.2%	-1.8 min	2.9%
9E Endeavor Air	30	3%	83.3%	0.8 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	27	3%	96.3%	-5.9 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	12	1%	75.0%	9.9 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	9	1%	55.6%	70.4 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	5	0%	40.0%	14.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LIT–DFW	Little Rock to Dallas/Fort Worth	233	70.0%	11.5 min	1.3%
LIT–ATL	Little Rock to Atlanta	188	91.0%	-1.2 min	0.0%
LIT–DEN	Little Rock to Denver	105	81.0%	5.5 min	1.0%
LIT–CLT	Little Rock to Charlotte	91	83.5%	2.1 min	1.1%
LIT–DAL	Little Rock to Dallas	89	88.8%	1.0 min	0.0%
LIT–IAH	Little Rock to Houston	82	85.4%	2.6 min	0.0%
LIT–ORD	Little Rock to Chicago	65	81.5%	12.6 min	0.0%
LIT–STL	Little Rock to St. Louis	58	84.5%	1.5 min	0.0%
LIT–LGA	Little Rock to New York	54	88.9%	-1.8 min	0.0%
LIT–LAS	Little Rock to Las Vegas	31	90.3%	-3.8 min	0.0%
LIT–DCA	Little Rock to Washington	27	96.3%	-12.4 min	0.0%
LIT–SFB	Little Rock to Sanford	9	55.6%	70.4 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	33.2%	41.3%	3,805
Late-arriving aircraft	38.8%	40.5%	4,442
National Aviation System	13.8%	14.4%	1,575
Extreme weather	13.1%	3.7%	1,497
Security	1.2%	0.2%	134

11,453 delay minutes on 174 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 October 2023?

83.6% of 1,036 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 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 October 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.