On-Time Report

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Airport month · April 2024

Harrisburg International in April 2024

88.4%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 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 507 domestic departures from Harrisburg International (MDT). 88.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.2% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so MDT departures were 7.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MDT that month were on time 84.1% of the time (509 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 44%, air carrier 30% and national aviation system 26%.

Every scheduled departure from MDT in April 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureApr 2024Year earlierMDT, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time88.4%—76.4%80.5%
Arrived on time87.2%—75.4%80.2%
Cancelled0.4%—2.4%0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)7.9 min—22.3 min14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day17—1619,406
Scheduled departures507—5,767582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines8717%94.3%-7.1 min0.0%
AA American Airlines7916%78.5%1.1 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines7916%91.1%-11.1 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air7415%86.5%-5.7 min1.4%
OH PSA Airlines6012%83.3%0.6 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline5611%91.1%-12.4 min0.0%
UA United Airlines306%90.0%-4.2 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air296%89.7%-5.8 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines133%61.5%13.0 min7.7%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MDT–ORDHarrisburg to Chicago13590.4%-5.3 min0.0%
MDT–CLTHarrisburg to Charlotte10978.0%4.7 min0.0%
MDT–ATLHarrisburg to Atlanta8690.7%-11.0 min0.0%
MDT–DFWHarrisburg to Dallas/Fort Worth3090.0%-12.7 min0.0%
MDT–DTWHarrisburg to Detroit3093.3%-6.4 min0.0%
MDT–EWRHarrisburg to Newark30100.0%-20.6 min0.0%
MDT–SFBHarrisburg to Sanford2095.0%-5.5 min0.0%
MDT–MCOHarrisburg to Orlando1361.5%13.0 min7.7%
MDT–PGDHarrisburg to Punta Gorda1181.8%28.5 min0.0%
MDT–BNAHarrisburg to Nashville977.8%-10.2 min0.0%
MDT–FLLHarrisburg to Fort Lauderdale988.9%-30.3 min0.0%
MDT–PIEHarrisburg to St. Petersburg988.9%-10.4 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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2024Minutes
Air carrier30.0%33.6%1,025
Late-arriving aircraft44.0%41.0%1,503
National Aviation System25.6%20.0%874
Extreme weather0.4%5.1%12
Security0.0%0.2%0
3,414 delay minutes on 59 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 MDT on time in April 2024?

88.4% of 507 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for MDT · methodology · corrections.