Monterey Regional in December 2023

88.6%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 324 domestic departures from Monterey Regional (MRY). 88.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.7% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.1% of flights departed on time and 83.8% arrived on time, so MRY departures were 5.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MRY that month were on time 88.9% of the time (324 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 56%, national aviation system 22% and air carrier 16%.

On time 86.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.7%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from MRY 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	MRY, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2023
Departed on time	88.6%	—	82.0%	83.1%
Arrived on time	86.7%	—	79.8%	83.8%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	1.0%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.9 min	—	16.7 min	11.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	11	—	13	19,013
Scheduled departures	324	—	4,686	570,394

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	282	87%	87.9%	0.5 min	0.4%
AA American Airlines	33	10%	81.8%	19.3 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	9	3%	66.7%	8.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MRY–PHX	Monterey to Phoenix	82	86.6%	0.3 min	0.0%
MRY–SFO	Monterey to San Francisco	62	87.1%	-7.4 min	0.0%
MRY–LAX	Monterey to Los Angeles	52	88.5%	11.7 min	0.0%
MRY–DEN	Monterey to Denver	32	87.5%	9.3 min	0.0%
MRY–DFW	Monterey to Dallas/Fort Worth	31	83.9%	15.4 min	0.0%
MRY–SAN	Monterey to San Diego	31	93.5%	-2.0 min	0.0%
MRY–SEA	Monterey to Seattle	25	84.0%	-4.4 min	4.0%
MRY–LAS	Monterey to Las Vegas	9	66.7%	8.2 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	15.8%	37.1%	545
Late-arriving aircraft	55.7%	38.8%	1,916
National Aviation System	21.7%	17.6%	748
Extreme weather	6.8%	6.2%	233
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

3,442 delay minutes on 41 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 MRY on time in December 2023?

88.6% of 324 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.7% 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 MRY · methodology · corrections.