Montrose Regional in February 2025

79.9%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 February 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 269 domestic departures from Montrose Regional (MTJ). 79.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.0% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.2% of flights departed on time and 77.9% arrived on time, so MTJ departures were 0.7 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in February 2024, the airport had 356 departures with 74.7% leaving on time: a change of +5.2 points, with flights down 24%.

Flights arriving at MTJ that month were on time 76.6% of the time (269 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 46%, air carrier 33% and national aviation system 20%.

On time 81.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.2%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.4%

Every scheduled departure from MTJ in February 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

February 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Feb 2025	Feb 2024	MTJ, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2025
Departed on time	79.9%	74.7%	77.2%	79.2%
Arrived on time	81.0%	78.9%	77.5%	77.9%
Cancelled	0.4%	1.1%	1.2%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	20.8 min	16.4 min	23.0 min	15.3 min
Scheduled departures a day	9	12	7	16,830
Scheduled departures	269	356	2,526	504,884

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
UA United Airlines	107	40%	79.4%	2.1 min	0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	46	17%	78.3%	6.8 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	32	12%	84.4%	12.1 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	30	11%	83.3%	2.7 min	3.3%
AA American Airlines	28	10%	82.1%	57.0 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	26	10%	84.6%	-9.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MTJ–DEN	Montrose/Delta to Denver	126	81.0%	3.9 min	0.0%
MTJ–DFW	Montrose/Delta to Dallas/Fort Worth	58	82.8%	29.4 min	1.7%
MTJ–ATL	Montrose/Delta to Atlanta	26	84.6%	-9.7 min	0.0%
MTJ–EWR	Montrose/Delta to Newark	23	65.2%	3.0 min	0.0%
MTJ–ORD	Montrose/Delta to Chicago	18	77.8%	27.1 min	0.0%
MTJ–SFO	Montrose/Delta to San Francisco	8	87.5%	-1.4 min	0.0%
MTJ–LAX	Montrose/Delta to Los Angeles	6	100.0%	-14.7 min	0.0%
MTJ–DAL	Montrose/Delta to Dallas	4	100.0%	-5.2 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), February 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	33.3%	33.9%	1,708
Late-arriving aircraft	46.3%	36.9%	2,378
National Aviation System	19.7%	22.5%	1,013
Extreme weather	0.7%	6.6%	36
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

5,135 delay minutes on 49 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 February 2025?

79.9% of 269 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.2% and 77.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In February 2024, 74.7% of 356 departures left on time and 1.1% were cancelled, against 79.9% and 0.4% in February 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for February 2025; 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.