On-Time Report

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Airport month · August 2025

Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field in August 2025

77.9%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 August 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,119 domestic departures from Bill and Hillary Clinton Nat Adams Field (LIT). 77.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 74.3% reached their destination on time; 1.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.8% of flights departed on time and 76.3% arrived on time, so LIT departures were 1.1 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in August 2024, the airport had 1,108 departures with 82.7% leaving on time: a change of −4.8 points, with flights up 1%.

Flights arriving at LIT that month were on time 75.7% of the time (1,118 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 31%, late-arriving aircraft 30% and national aviation system 25%.

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

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

MeasureAug 2025Aug 2024LIT, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Aug 2025
Departed on time77.9%82.7%79.7%76.8%
Arrived on time74.3%81.3%79.2%76.3%
Cancelled1.1%0.8%1.8%1.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)15.9 min13.4 min16.3 min17.6 min
Scheduled departures a day37373720,079
Scheduled departures1,1191,10813,424602,378

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MQ Envoy Air34731%68.6%14.5 min1.4%
OO SkyWest Airlines25723%59.5%26.5 min1.2%
WN Southwest Airlines20819%86.5%-1.1 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines19818%90.9%-7.6 min0.5%
AA American Airlines353%65.7%11.6 min2.9%
YX Republic Airline313%93.5%-8.5 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air161%56.3%18.9 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines161%75.0%-0.6 min12.5%
F9 Frontier Airlines111%63.6%29.4 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
LIT–DFWLittle Rock to Dallas/Fort Worth25161.4%21.8 min2.0%
LIT–ATLLittle Rock to Atlanta19890.9%-7.6 min0.5%
LIT–ORDLittle Rock to Chicago14465.3%17.2 min2.8%
LIT–DENLittle Rock to Denver13561.5%28.6 min0.0%
LIT–DALLittle Rock to Dallas8689.5%-1.9 min0.0%
LIT–CLTLittle Rock to Charlotte7678.9%4.9 min2.6%
LIT–IAHLittle Rock to Houston6066.7%15.1 min0.0%
LIT–STLLittle Rock to St. Louis5682.1%-4.6 min0.0%
LIT–DCALittle Rock to Washington3187.1%-3.4 min0.0%
LIT–LASLittle Rock to Las Vegas3190.3%-3.3 min0.0%
LIT–LGALittle Rock to New York2696.2%-10.2 min0.0%
LIT–VPSLittle Rock to Valparaiso683.3%-0.8 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), August 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Aug 2025Minutes
Air carrier30.6%33.1%5,597
Late-arriving aircraft29.7%40.5%5,427
National Aviation System24.6%19.2%4,502
Extreme weather14.5%7.0%2,640
Security0.5%0.1%99
18,265 delay minutes on 271 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 August 2025?

77.9% of 1,119 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 74.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.8% and 76.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In August 2024, 82.7% of 1,108 departures left on time and 0.8% were cancelled, against 77.9% and 1.1% in August 2025.

Provenance

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