MBS International in March 2024

90.7%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 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 172 domestic departures from MBS International (MBS). 90.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.8% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so MBS departures were 12.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MBS that month were on time 83.1% of the time (172 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 64%, late-arriving aircraft 24% and national aviation system 10%.

On time 87.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.2%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from MBS in March 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

March 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	MBS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	90.7%	—	76.6%	78.5%
Arrived on time	87.8%	—	72.9%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	2.0%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.6 min	—	27.1 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	6	—	6	19,726
Scheduled departures	172	—	2,061	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	172	100%	87.8%	2.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MBS–DTW	Saginaw/Bay City/Midland to Detroit	88	90.9%	2.2 min	0.0%
MBS–ORD	Saginaw/Bay City/Midland to Chicago	84	84.5%	1.7 min	0.0%

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 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	64.1%	32.1%	1,440
Late-arriving aircraft	24.2%	42.1%	543
National Aviation System	10.0%	21.4%	225
Extreme weather	1.7%	4.2%	39
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

2,247 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 March 2024?

90.7% of 172 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 2023 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 March 2024; 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.