On-Time Report

Airports › Little Rock (LIT) › March 2025

Airport month · March 2025

Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field in March 2025

80.2%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 March 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 970 domestic departures from Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field (LIT). 80.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.0% reached their destination on time; 1.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so LIT departures were level with the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 981 departures with 83.5% leaving on time: a change of −3.3 points, with flights down 1%.

Flights arriving at LIT that month were on time 76.0% of the time (971 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 41%, air carrier 38% and national aviation system 11%.

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

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

MeasureMar 2025Mar 2024LIT, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time80.2%83.5%79.7%79.9%
Arrived on time80.0%83.1%79.2%79.3%
Cancelled1.5%0.7%1.8%1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)18.3 min12.5 min16.3 min14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day32333720,029
Scheduled departures97098113,424600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MQ Envoy Air20721%79.2%7.5 min1.4%
WN Southwest Airlines20421%88.7%-3.0 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines19520%83.6%3.8 min1.0%
OH PSA Airlines16917%60.4%49.2 min5.3%
OO SkyWest Airlines12513%84.8%-3.8 min0.0%
AA American Airlines313%80.6%11.4 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline313%87.1%0.5 min3.2%
F9 Frontier Airlines81%100.0%-12.2 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
LIT–DFWLittle Rock to Dallas/Fort Worth23270.3%28.1 min4.3%
LIT–ATLLittle Rock to Atlanta19583.6%3.8 min1.0%
LIT–DENLittle Rock to Denver13089.2%-7.1 min0.0%
LIT–CLTLittle Rock to Charlotte11765.0%30.7 min1.7%
LIT–DALLittle Rock to Dallas8490.5%-2.0 min0.0%
LIT–STLLittle Rock to St. Louis5791.2%-3.6 min0.0%
LIT–IAHLittle Rock to Houston3284.4%1.4 min0.0%
LIT–DCALittle Rock to Washington3196.8%-8.4 min0.0%
LIT–LASLittle Rock to Las Vegas3171.0%2.6 min0.0%
LIT–ORDLittle Rock to Chicago2979.3%8.3 min0.0%
LIT–LGALittle Rock to New York2684.6%2.5 min3.8%
LIT–MIALittle Rock to Miami5100.0%-9.4 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), March 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Mar 2025Minutes
Air carrier38.4%33.0%6,596
Late-arriving aircraft41.0%39.2%7,035
National Aviation System11.0%21.9%1,885
Extreme weather9.6%5.9%1,646
Security0.0%0.1%0
17,162 delay minutes on 178 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 March 2025?

80.2% of 970 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 83.5% of 981 departures left on time and 0.7% were cancelled, against 80.2% and 1.5% in March 2025.

Provenance

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