On-Time Report

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Airport month · April 2024

Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field in April 2024

81.0%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,087 domestic departures from Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field (LIT). 81.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.5% reached their destination on time; 1.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so LIT departures were 0.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LIT that month were on time 78.7% of the time (1,086 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 43%, late-arriving aircraft 34% and extreme weather 12%.

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

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

MeasureApr 2024Year earlierLIT, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time81.0%—79.7%80.5%
Arrived on time82.5%—79.2%80.2%
Cancelled1.1%—1.8%0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)17.3 min—16.3 min14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day36—3719,406
Scheduled departures1,087—13,424582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MQ Envoy Air32430%76.5%12.4 min1.9%
WN Southwest Airlines23321%86.7%1.3 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines20719%77.3%8.2 min1.4%
DL Delta Air Lines16916%92.9%-6.8 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline575%96.5%-7.4 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines545%72.2%57.5 min5.6%
AA American Airlines303%80.0%54.5 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines121%91.7%-3.0 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air10%100.0%-3.0 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
LIT–DFWLittle Rock to Dallas/Fort Worth23169.3%29.5 min4.3%
LIT–ATLLittle Rock to Atlanta20093.0%-5.2 min0.0%
LIT–ORDLittle Rock to Chicago17475.9%11.9 min0.0%
LIT–DENLittle Rock to Denver10388.3%-0.3 min0.0%
LIT–CLTLittle Rock to Charlotte9078.9%20.9 min1.1%
LIT–DALLittle Rock to Dallas8282.9%3.0 min0.0%
LIT–STLLittle Rock to St. Louis5691.1%-5.1 min0.0%
LIT–LGALittle Rock to New York5396.2%-7.8 min0.0%
LIT–DCALittle Rock to Washington3093.3%-10.7 min0.0%
LIT–IAHLittle Rock to Houston3090.0%4.6 min3.3%
LIT–LASLittle Rock to Las Vegas3080.0%8.2 min0.0%
LIT–HOULittle Rock to Houston4100.0%-13.5 min0.0%

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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2024Minutes
Air carrier42.6%33.6%7,369
Late-arriving aircraft34.4%41.0%5,961
National Aviation System11.2%20.0%1,934
Extreme weather11.8%5.1%2,043
Security0.0%0.2%0
17,307 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.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left LIT on time in April 2024?

81.0% of 1,087 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 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.