Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field in January 2024

74.2%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 900 domestic departures from Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field (LIT). 74.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 70.1% reached their destination on time; 2.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so LIT departures were level with the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LIT that month were on time 70.4% of the time (900 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 43%, air carrier 22% and national aviation system 18%.

On time 70.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 27.0%
Cancelled 2.9%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from LIT in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	LIT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	74.2%	—	79.7%	74.0%
Arrived on time	70.1%	—	79.2%	72.9%
Cancelled	2.9%	—	1.8%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	20.1 min	—	16.3 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	30	—	37	18,242
Scheduled departures	900	—	13,424	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	223	25%	83.9%	1.4 min	2.2%
MQ Envoy Air	218	24%	67.4%	14.6 min	4.6%
DL Delta Air Lines	129	14%	76.7%	7.0 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	106	12%	58.5%	36.3 min	2.8%
OO SkyWest Airlines	79	9%	58.2%	18.3 min	6.3%
YX Republic Airline	56	6%	64.3%	23.3 min	1.8%
AA American Airlines	48	5%	58.3%	25.4 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	32	4%	62.5%	25.4 min	3.1%
F9 Frontier Airlines	7	1%	85.7%	-28.5 min	14.3%
G4 Allegiant Air	2	0%	0.0%	73.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LIT–DFW	Little Rock to Dallas/Fort Worth	217	59.9%	23.9 min	4.1%
LIT–ATL	Little Rock to Atlanta	176	75.6%	9.1 min	0.6%
LIT–CLT	Little Rock to Charlotte	99	71.7%	24.0 min	1.0%
LIT–DAL	Little Rock to Dallas	89	86.5%	-1.2 min	3.4%
LIT–ORD	Little Rock to Chicago	88	54.5%	25.5 min	6.8%
LIT–STL	Little Rock to St. Louis	58	91.4%	3.7 min	3.4%
LIT–DEN	Little Rock to Denver	55	81.8%	-3.8 min	1.8%
LIT–LGA	Little Rock to New York	49	67.3%	17.7 min	2.0%
LIT–DCA	Little Rock to Washington	31	61.3%	6.3 min	6.5%
LIT–LAS	Little Rock to Las Vegas	31	64.5%	9.7 min	0.0%
LIT–MIA	Little Rock to Miami	4	25.0%	59.3 min	0.0%
LIT–SFB	Little Rock to Sanford	2	0.0%	73.0 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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	22.0%	32.6%	3,959
Late-arriving aircraft	42.9%	39.0%	7,735
National Aviation System	17.6%	17.9%	3,180
Extreme weather	17.5%	10.3%	3,149
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

18,023 delay minutes on 243 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 January 2024?

74.2% of 900 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 70.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 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 January 2024; 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.