On-Time Report

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Airport month · April 2025

Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field in April 2025

76.2%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 April 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,108 domestic departures from Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field (LIT). 76.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 73.3% reached their destination on time; 2.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.6% of flights departed on time and 79.5% arrived on time, so LIT departures were 4.4 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in April 2024, the airport had 1,087 departures with 81.0% leaving on time: a change of −4.8 points, with flights up 2%.

Flights arriving at LIT that month were on time 72.3% of the time (1,108 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 39%, air carrier 29% and extreme weather 17%.

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

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

MeasureApr 2025Apr 2024LIT, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2025
Departed on time76.2%81.0%79.7%80.6%
Arrived on time73.3%82.5%79.2%79.5%
Cancelled2.4%1.1%1.8%0.8%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)20.3 min17.3 min16.3 min14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day37363719,465
Scheduled departures1,1081,08713,424583,950

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MQ Envoy Air25423%70.9%20.4 min1.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines20218%70.8%13.4 min0.5%
WN Southwest Airlines20118%74.6%11.3 min1.0%
OH PSA Airlines18016%61.7%23.2 min9.4%
DL Delta Air Lines17516%85.1%4.9 min1.1%
YX Republic Airline616%86.9%-3.1 min0.0%
AA American Airlines262%76.9%18.6 min3.8%
F9 Frontier Airlines91%66.7%25.8 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
LIT–DFWLittle Rock to Dallas/Fort Worth23560.9%30.9 min6.4%
LIT–ATLLittle Rock to Atlanta17585.1%4.9 min1.1%
LIT–ORDLittle Rock to Chicago13678.7%8.1 min1.5%
LIT–DENLittle Rock to Denver12966.7%13.7 min0.0%
LIT–CLTLittle Rock to Charlotte12070.8%17.0 min4.2%
LIT–DALLittle Rock to Dallas8279.3%12.2 min1.2%
LIT–IAHLittle Rock to Houston8270.7%13.3 min1.2%
LIT–STLLittle Rock to St. Louis5682.1%6.4 min1.8%
LIT–DCALittle Rock to Washington3090.0%-7.1 min0.0%
LIT–LASLittle Rock to Las Vegas3066.7%16.3 min0.0%
LIT–LGALittle Rock to New York2684.6%-1.6 min0.0%
LIT–MIALittle Rock to Miami475.0%7.3 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 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2025Minutes
Air carrier28.5%32.7%6,434
Late-arriving aircraft39.1%39.4%8,847
National Aviation System15.8%22.2%3,572
Extreme weather16.5%5.5%3,720
Security0.1%0.2%33
22,606 delay minutes on 266 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 2025?

76.2% of 1,108 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 73.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.6% and 79.5%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In April 2024, 81.0% of 1,087 departures left on time and 1.1% were cancelled, against 76.2% and 2.4% in April 2025.

Provenance

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