Mobile Regional in December 2023

92.7%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 December 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 232 domestic departures from Mobile Regional (MOB). 92.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 93.1% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.1% of flights departed on time and 83.8% arrived on time, so MOB departures were 9.6 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MOB that month were on time 90.0% of the time (231 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 45%, air carrier 27% and extreme weather 23%.

On time 93.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 6.9%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from MOB in December 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

December 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Dec 2023	Year earlier	MOB, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2023
Departed on time	92.7%	—	80.2%	83.1%
Arrived on time	93.1%	—	80.0%	83.8%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	3.0%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	5.7 min	—	15.3 min	11.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	8	—	6	19,013
Scheduled departures	232	—	2,071	570,394

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
9E Endeavor Air	82	35%	97.6%	-14.8 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	81	35%	88.9%	-4.3 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	38	16%	89.5%	2.2 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	31	13%	96.8%	-4.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MOB–ATL	Mobile to Atlanta	113	97.3%	-12.1 min	0.0%
MOB–DFW	Mobile to Dallas/Fort Worth	80	88.8%	-4.6 min	0.0%
MOB–IAH	Mobile to Houston	38	89.5%	2.2 min	0.0%
MOB–CLT	Mobile to Charlotte	1	100.0%	14.0 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), December 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Dec 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	26.9%	37.1%	307
Late-arriving aircraft	45.0%	38.8%	514
National Aviation System	5.4%	17.6%	62
Extreme weather	22.6%	6.2%	258
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

1,141 delay minutes on 16 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 MOB on time in December 2023?

92.7% of 232 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 93.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.1% and 83.8%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

December 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 December 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for MOB · methodology · corrections.