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Airport month · April 2024

Eppley Airfield in April 2024

84.7%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,926 domestic departures from Eppley Airfield (OMA). 84.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.4% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so OMA departures were 4.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at OMA that month were on time 78.5% of the time (1,924 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 44%, air carrier 35% and national aviation system 15%.

Every scheduled departure from OMA in April 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

April 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureApr 2024Year earlierOMA, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time84.7%—80.0%80.5%
Arrived on time84.4%—79.8%80.2%
Cancelled0.5%—1.2%0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)12.5 min—15.6 min14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day64—6919,406
Scheduled departures1,926—25,258582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines66034%83.3%3.6 min0.2%
OO SkyWest Airlines39120%86.2%5.1 min0.8%
AA American Airlines29615%83.1%6.1 min1.0%
UA United Airlines20611%82.5%3.4 min1.0%
DL Delta Air Lines1548%92.2%-3.0 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline603%85.0%16.3 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air442%90.9%-5.0 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air352%85.7%-1.7 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines312%74.2%8.7 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines302%76.7%0.5 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air191%73.7%6.7 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OMA–DENOmaha to Denver27976.3%9.2 min0.7%
OMA–ORDOmaha to Chicago20086.5%4.1 min0.5%
OMA–ATLOmaha to Atlanta17691.5%-4.1 min0.0%
OMA–PHXOmaha to Phoenix15188.1%0.7 min0.0%
OMA–MDWOmaha to Chicago12490.3%-0.7 min0.0%
OMA–DFWOmaha to Dallas/Fort Worth11979.8%7.9 min2.5%
OMA–MSPOmaha to Minneapolis11688.8%1.3 min0.0%
OMA–LASOmaha to Las Vegas10988.1%-3.7 min0.0%
OMA–LGAOmaha to New York10879.6%20.7 min0.9%
OMA–DTWOmaha to Detroit8686.0%5.6 min1.2%
OMA–CLTOmaha to Charlotte6180.3%3.5 min0.0%
OMA–STLOmaha to St. Louis5782.5%5.1 min0.0%

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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2024Minutes
Air carrier35.4%33.6%7,972
Late-arriving aircraft43.6%41.0%9,815
National Aviation System14.8%20.0%3,328
Extreme weather6.2%5.1%1,386
Security0.0%0.2%0
22,501 delay minutes on 289 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left OMA on time in April 2024?

84.7% of 1,926 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for OMA · methodology · corrections.