On-Time Report

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Airport month · January 2025

Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field in January 2025

77.3%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 950 domestic departures from Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field (LIT). 77.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 77.2% reached their destination on time; 5.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so LIT departures were 2.0 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 900 departures with 74.2% leaving on time: a change of +3.1 points, with flights up 6%.

Flights arriving at LIT that month were on time 75.2% of the time (950 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 33%, air carrier 30% and extreme weather 23%.

Every scheduled departure from LIT in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureJan 2025Jan 2024LIT, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time77.3%74.2%79.7%79.3%
Arrived on time77.2%70.1%79.2%78.6%
Cancelled5.3%2.9%1.8%3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)14.1 min20.1 min16.3 min14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day32303717,992
Scheduled departures95090013,424539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MQ Envoy Air22323%73.5%7.6 min5.8%
WN Southwest Airlines20922%88.0%-3.8 min2.9%
DL Delta Air Lines17819%84.3%2.4 min3.4%
OH PSA Airlines15416%72.1%9.3 min7.8%
OO SkyWest Airlines11512%70.4%3.3 min7.8%
AA American Airlines364%55.6%27.4 min8.3%
YX Republic Airline313%67.7%15.8 min3.2%
F9 Frontier Airlines20%50.0%16.0 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air20%50.0%75.5 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
LIT–DFWLittle Rock to Dallas/Fort Worth23866.8%16.5 min7.6%
LIT–ATLLittle Rock to Atlanta17884.3%2.4 min3.4%
LIT–DENLittle Rock to Denver11979.8%1.9 min4.2%
LIT–CLTLittle Rock to Charlotte11779.5%2.2 min5.1%
LIT–DALLittle Rock to Dallas9087.8%-2.5 min3.3%
LIT–STLLittle Rock to St. Louis5988.1%-9.1 min5.1%
LIT–DCALittle Rock to Washington3183.9%-14.0 min9.7%
LIT–IAHLittle Rock to Houston2955.2%9.2 min13.8%
LIT–LASLittle Rock to Las Vegas2882.1%-3.9 min0.0%
LIT–LGALittle Rock to New York2774.1%10.0 min3.7%
LIT–ORDLittle Rock to Chicago2763.0%12.8 min3.7%
LIT–MIALittle Rock to Miami425.0%53.8 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), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2025Minutes
Air carrier29.7%36.2%3,699
Late-arriving aircraft32.7%34.7%4,073
National Aviation System14.2%19.9%1,764
Extreme weather23.4%9.1%2,917
Security0.0%0.2%0
12,453 delay minutes on 167 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 January 2025?

77.3% of 950 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 77.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 74.2% of 900 departures left on time and 2.9% were cancelled, against 77.3% and 5.3% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; 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.