MBS International in October 2023

90.6%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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 181 domestic departures from MBS International (MBS). 90.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 88.4% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so MBS departures were 6.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MBS that month were on time 90.1% of the time (181 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 72% and late-arriving aircraft 28%.

On time 88.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 11.6%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from MBS in October 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

October 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Oct 2023	Year earlier	MBS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time	90.6%	—	76.6%	83.8%
Arrived on time	88.4%	—	72.9%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	2.0%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	8.3 min	—	27.1 min	11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	6	—	6	19,966
Scheduled departures	181	—	2,061	598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	164	91%	87.2%	-0.1 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	17	9%	100.0%	-7.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MBS–ORD	Saginaw/Bay City/Midland to Chicago	93	80.6%	1.4 min	0.0%
MBS–DTW	Saginaw/Bay City/Midland to Detroit	88	96.6%	-3.1 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	72.4%	41.3%	1,140
Late-arriving aircraft	27.6%	40.5%	434
National Aviation System	0.0%	14.4%	0
Extreme weather	0.0%	3.7%	0
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

1,574 delay minutes on 21 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left MBS on time in October 2023?

90.6% of 181 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 88.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 2022 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 October 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for MBS · methodology · corrections.