Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field in March 2024

83.5%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 981 domestic departures from Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field (LIT). 83.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.1% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so LIT departures were 5.0 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LIT that month were on time 78.1% of the time (982 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 44%, air carrier 27% and national aviation system 15%.

On time 83.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.2%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	LIT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	83.5%	—	79.7%	78.5%
Arrived on time	83.1%	—	79.2%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	1.8%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.5 min	—	16.3 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	33	—	37	19,726
Scheduled departures	981	—	13,424	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	367	37%	77.4%	11.0 min	1.4%
WN Southwest Airlines	238	24%	84.0%	0.7 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	170	17%	91.2%	-5.7 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	108	11%	86.1%	-3.0 min	1.9%
YX Republic Airline	49	5%	91.8%	-10.9 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	26	3%	76.9%	13.7 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	11	1%	90.9%	0.3 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	7	1%	57.1%	8.4 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	5	1%	80.0%	39.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LIT–DFW	Little Rock to Dallas/Fort Worth	244	73.4%	15.2 min	1.6%
LIT–ATL	Little Rock to Atlanta	200	89.5%	-3.7 min	0.0%
LIT–CLT	Little Rock to Charlotte	93	82.8%	9.1 min	0.0%
LIT–ORD	Little Rock to Chicago	92	82.6%	5.0 min	1.1%
LIT–DAL	Little Rock to Dallas	84	86.9%	-3.9 min	0.0%
LIT–DEN	Little Rock to Denver	73	90.4%	-8.3 min	1.4%
LIT–STL	Little Rock to St. Louis	57	89.5%	-2.6 min	0.0%
LIT–LGA	Little Rock to New York	52	92.3%	-9.3 min	0.0%
LIT–DCA	Little Rock to Washington	31	90.3%	-6.7 min	0.0%
LIT–LAS	Little Rock to Las Vegas	31	61.3%	21.1 min	0.0%
LIT–IAH	Little Rock to Houston	15	86.7%	-14.1 min	6.7%
LIT–MIA	Little Rock to Miami	5	80.0%	-6.6 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	26.9%	32.1%	3,061
Late-arriving aircraft	43.9%	42.1%	4,996
National Aviation System	14.9%	21.4%	1,695
Extreme weather	14.4%	4.2%	1,634
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

11,386 delay minutes on 159 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 March 2024?

83.5% of 981 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.