Montrose Regional in March 2024

80.2%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 389 domestic departures from Montrose Regional (MTJ). 80.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 77.9% reached their destination on time; 1.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so MTJ departures were 1.7 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at MTJ that month were on time 83.3% of the time (389 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 59%, national aviation system 22% and air carrier 12%.

On time 77.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 20.3%
Cancelled 1.0%
Diverted 0.8%

Every scheduled departure from MTJ 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	MTJ, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	80.2%	—	77.2%	78.5%
Arrived on time	77.9%	—	77.5%	78.3%
Cancelled	1.0%	—	1.2%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.6 min	—	23.0 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	13	—	7	19,726
Scheduled departures	389	—	2,526	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	107	28%	82.2%	-1.4 min	1.9%
WN Southwest Airlines	103	26%	77.7%	-2.3 min	1.0%
UA United Airlines	94	24%	75.5%	2.3 min	1.1%
AA American Airlines	54	14%	68.5%	34.1 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	31	8%	87.1%	-3.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MTJ–DEN	Montrose/Delta to Denver	160	78.1%	-0.1 min	1.9%
MTJ–DFW	Montrose/Delta to Dallas/Fort Worth	54	68.5%	34.1 min	0.0%
MTJ–ATL	Montrose/Delta to Atlanta	31	87.1%	-3.8 min	0.0%
MTJ–DAL	Montrose/Delta to Dallas	31	74.2%	-2.5 min	3.2%
MTJ–ORD	Montrose/Delta to Chicago	31	96.8%	-9.9 min	0.0%
MTJ–EWR	Montrose/Delta to Newark	30	80.0%	-3.3 min	0.0%
MTJ–IAH	Montrose/Delta to Houston	30	70.0%	8.1 min	0.0%
MTJ–LAX	Montrose/Delta to Los Angeles	9	88.9%	-3.9 min	0.0%
MTJ–SFO	Montrose/Delta to San Francisco	9	55.6%	14.9 min	0.0%
MTJ–AUS	Montrose/Delta to Austin	4	75.0%	-5.0 min	0.0%

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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	11.8%	32.1%	602
Late-arriving aircraft	59.4%	42.1%	3,032
National Aviation System	21.7%	21.4%	1,109
Extreme weather	6.0%	4.2%	305
Security	1.1%	0.2%	54

5,102 delay minutes on 79 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 MTJ on time in March 2024?

80.2% of 389 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 77.9% 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 MTJ · methodology · corrections.