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Airport month · September 2023
General Mitchell International in September 2023
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 September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 2,317 domestic departures from General Mitchell International (MKE). 83.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.0% reached their destination on time; 1.4% were cancelled.
Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so MKE departures were 3.4 points above the national departure figure.
Flights arriving at MKE that month were on time 81.1% of the time (2,319 scheduled arrivals).
Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 36%, late-arriving aircraft 36% and national aviation system 20%.
- On time 83.0%
- Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.4%
- Cancelled 1.4%
- Diverted 0.2%
September 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation
| Measure | Sep 2023 | Year earlier | MKE, 12 months to Jul 2026 | All reported flights, Sep 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed on time | 83.9% | — | 77.6% | 80.5% |
| Arrived on time | 83.0% | — | 76.2% | 80.1% |
| Cancelled | 1.4% | — | 2.3% | 1.2% |
| Average departure delay (late minutes only) | 12.6 min | — | 17.8 min | 14.1 min |
| Scheduled departures a day | 77 | — | 80 | 18,978 |
| Scheduled departures | 2,317 | — | 29,355 | 569,338 |
Airlines that month
| Reporting carrier | Flights | Share | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WN Southwest Airlines | 740 | 32% | 88.4% | -1.7 min | 0.4% |
| OO SkyWest Airlines | 394 | 17% | 79.7% | 7.5 min | 1.3% |
| DL Delta Air Lines | 363 | 16% | 88.7% | -4.9 min | 0.3% |
| AA American Airlines | 250 | 11% | 79.2% | 13.0 min | 0.0% |
| UA United Airlines | 128 | 6% | 84.4% | -4.1 min | 0.8% |
| YX Republic Airline | 102 | 4% | 71.6% | 9.5 min | 12.7% |
| 9E Endeavor Air | 86 | 4% | 77.9% | 15.7 min | 3.5% |
| F9 Frontier Airlines | 70 | 3% | 80.0% | -2.0 min | 2.9% |
| B6 JetBlue Airways | 60 | 3% | 53.3% | 37.9 min | 1.7% |
| NK Spirit Airlines | 53 | 2% | 90.6% | -3.2 min | 1.9% |
| AS Alaska Airlines | 42 | 2% | 83.3% | -8.4 min | 0.0% |
| OH PSA Airlines | 29 | 1% | 55.2% | 50.0 min | 10.3% |
Busiest routes that month
| Route | Cities | Flights | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MKE–DEN | Milwaukee to Denver | 265 | 87.5% | -5.4 min | 1.1% |
| MKE–ATL | Milwaukee to Atlanta | 217 | 91.7% | -5.0 min | 0.0% |
| MKE–ORD | Milwaukee to Chicago | 185 | 80.0% | 6.7 min | 0.0% |
| MKE–MSP | Milwaukee to Minneapolis | 130 | 90.8% | -7.1 min | 0.8% |
| MKE–DTW | Milwaukee to Detroit | 118 | 87.3% | -3.9 min | 0.0% |
| MKE–LAS | Milwaukee to Las Vegas | 118 | 87.3% | -1.0 min | 0.8% |
| MKE–PHX | Milwaukee to Phoenix | 113 | 80.5% | 13.8 min | 0.0% |
| MKE–MCO | Milwaukee to Orlando | 106 | 84.9% | 0.7 min | 0.9% |
| MKE–LGA | Milwaukee to New York | 105 | 70.5% | 19.3 min | 7.6% |
| MKE–EWR | Milwaukee to Newark | 89 | 76.4% | -1.0 min | 9.0% |
| MKE–CLT | Milwaukee to Charlotte | 87 | 82.8% | 3.2 min | 0.0% |
| MKE–DFW | Milwaukee to Dallas/Fort Worth | 87 | 71.3% | 18.6 min | 0.0% |
By scheduled departure hour
Delay causes
Questions and answers
How many flights left MKE on time in September 2023?
83.9% of 2,317 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.
How does that compare with a year earlier?
September 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 September 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for MKE · methodology · corrections.