Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field in February 2024

89.5%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 February 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 859 domestic departures from Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field (LIT). 89.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.7% reached their destination on time; 0.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 84.0% of flights departed on time and 83.4% arrived on time, so LIT departures were 5.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LIT that month were on time 86.4% of the time (860 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 45%, air carrier 35% and national aviation system 14%.

On time 87.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.0%
Cancelled 0.2%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Feb 2024	Year earlier	LIT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2024
Departed on time	89.5%	—	79.7%	84.0%
Arrived on time	87.7%	—	79.2%	83.4%
Cancelled	0.2%	—	1.8%	0.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	8.5 min	—	16.3 min	11.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	29	—	37	17,307
Scheduled departures	859	—	13,424	519,221

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	270	31%	90.7%	-4.0 min	0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	203	24%	89.2%	-3.4 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	148	17%	93.2%	-3.3 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	86	10%	77.9%	21.4 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	47	5%	83.0%	-2.6 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	38	4%	68.4%	5.5 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	33	4%	87.9%	-3.7 min	3.0%
YX Republic Airline	30	3%	80.0%	4.2 min	3.3%
F9 Frontier Airlines	4	0%	100.0%	-14.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LIT–DFW	Little Rock to Dallas/Fort Worth	214	86.4%	-2.7 min	0.0%
LIT–ATL	Little Rock to Atlanta	165	92.7%	-3.3 min	0.0%
LIT–CLT	Little Rock to Charlotte	87	89.7%	-1.7 min	0.0%
LIT–DAL	Little Rock to Dallas	83	92.8%	-7.2 min	0.0%
LIT–ORD	Little Rock to Chicago	83	85.5%	16.7 min	0.0%
LIT–DEN	Little Rock to Denver	61	78.7%	6.4 min	0.0%
LIT–STL	Little Rock to St. Louis	54	94.4%	-7.2 min	0.0%
LIT–LGA	Little Rock to New York	50	84.0%	0.0 min	4.0%
LIT–DCA	Little Rock to Washington	29	82.8%	-7.6 min	0.0%
LIT–LAS	Little Rock to Las Vegas	29	72.4%	8.2 min	0.0%
LIT–MIA	Little Rock to Miami	4	75.0%	16.5 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), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	34.9%	35.9%	2,390
Late-arriving aircraft	45.1%	36.9%	3,090
National Aviation System	14.1%	21.7%	967
Extreme weather	5.9%	5.3%	407
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

6,854 delay minutes on 103 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 February 2024?

89.5% of 859 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 84.0% and 83.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 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 February 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.