Quad Cities International in March 2024

84.9%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 364 domestic departures from Quad Cities International (MLI). 84.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.3% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so MLI departures were 6.4 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MLI that month were on time 84.3% of the time (363 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 37%, national aviation system 32% and late-arriving aircraft 24%.

On time 84.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.4%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from MLI 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	MLI, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	84.9%	—	77.9%	78.5%
Arrived on time	84.3%	—	74.2%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	3.6%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	11.6 min	—	21.9 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	12	—	12	19,726
Scheduled departures	364	—	4,301	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	133	37%	86.5%	1.2 min	0.8%
9E Endeavor Air	62	17%	83.9%	-1.0 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	62	17%	79.0%	-2.9 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	62	17%	90.3%	-1.2 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	45	12%	77.8%	1.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MLI–ORD	Moline to Chicago	102	86.3%	1.7 min	0.0%
MLI–ATL	Moline to Atlanta	62	83.9%	-1.0 min	0.0%
MLI–CLT	Moline to Charlotte	62	90.3%	-1.2 min	0.0%
MLI–DFW	Moline to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	79.0%	-2.9 min	0.0%
MLI–DEN	Moline to Denver	31	87.1%	-0.7 min	3.2%
MLI–AZA	Moline to Phoenix	9	100.0%	-24.6 min	0.0%
MLI–LAS	Moline to Las Vegas	9	77.8%	16.4 min	0.0%
MLI–PGD	Moline to Punta Gorda	9	55.6%	24.9 min	0.0%
MLI–PIE	Moline to St. Petersburg	9	88.9%	-13.2 min	0.0%
MLI–SFB	Moline to Sanford	9	66.7%	5.7 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	37.1%	32.1%	1,498
Late-arriving aircraft	23.7%	42.1%	955
National Aviation System	32.1%	21.4%	1,296
Extreme weather	7.1%	4.2%	287
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

4,036 delay minutes on 56 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 MLI on time in March 2024?

84.9% of 364 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.3% 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 MLI · methodology · corrections.