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Airport month · April 2024

General Mitchell International in April 2024

85.3%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 2,369 domestic departures from General Mitchell International (MKE). 85.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.6% 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 MKE departures were 4.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MKE that month were on time 78.2% of the time (2,371 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 42%, air carrier 38% and national aviation system 19%.

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

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

MeasureApr 2024Year earlierMKE, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time85.3%—77.6%80.5%
Arrived on time84.6%—76.2%80.2%
Cancelled0.4%—2.3%0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)13.5 min—17.8 min14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day79—8019,406
Scheduled departures2,369—29,355582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines84436%84.8%2.7 min0.4%
OO SkyWest Airlines37816%84.1%1.8 min0.3%
DL Delta Air Lines33814%91.1%-2.9 min0.0%
AA American Airlines2069%73.8%29.9 min1.0%
YX Republic Airline1386%89.9%-8.5 min0.7%
9E Endeavor Air1195%84.0%4.0 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines864%75.6%14.5 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines693%87.0%-7.7 min2.9%
B6 JetBlue Airways603%75.0%5.4 min0.0%
UA United Airlines572%87.7%-0.2 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines422%83.3%20.1 min2.4%
AS Alaska Airlines301%96.7%-4.9 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
MKE–DENMilwaukee to Denver21990.0%-3.8 min0.5%
MKE–ORDMilwaukee to Chicago20884.1%2.4 min0.0%
MKE–ATLMilwaukee to Atlanta20289.1%0.3 min0.0%
MKE–MCOMilwaukee to Orlando16285.2%-0.6 min2.5%
MKE–PHXMilwaukee to Phoenix14981.2%18.2 min0.0%
MKE–LASMilwaukee to Las Vegas12686.5%4.4 min0.8%
MKE–DTWMilwaukee to Detroit12082.5%6.6 min0.0%
MKE–MSPMilwaukee to Minneapolis11693.1%-4.0 min0.0%
MKE–DCAMilwaukee to Washington11282.1%5.1 min0.0%
MKE–LGAMilwaukee to New York10884.3%4.3 min0.0%
MKE–CLTMilwaukee to Charlotte9080.0%27.7 min0.0%
MKE–BOSMilwaukee to Boston8681.4%0.9 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 carrier38.1%33.6%11,436
Late-arriving aircraft41.5%41.0%12,449
National Aviation System18.5%20.0%5,567
Extreme weather1.9%5.1%559
Security0.0%0.2%0
30,011 delay minutes on 351 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 MKE on time in April 2024?

85.3% of 2,369 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.6% 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 MKE · methodology · corrections.