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Airport month · April 2025

Eppley Airfield in April 2025

86.6%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 April 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,922 domestic departures from Eppley Airfield (OMA). 86.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.3% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.6% of flights departed on time and 79.5% arrived on time, so OMA departures were 6.0 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in April 2024, the airport had 1,926 departures with 84.7% leaving on time: a change of +1.9 points, with flights down 0%.

Flights arriving at OMA that month were on time 80.5% of the time (1,920 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 35%, national aviation system 30% and air carrier 27%.

Every scheduled departure from OMA in April 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureApr 2025Apr 2024OMA, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2025
Departed on time86.6%84.7%80.0%80.6%
Arrived on time84.3%84.4%79.8%79.5%
Cancelled0.8%0.5%1.2%0.8%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)10.2 min12.5 min15.6 min14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day64646919,465
Scheduled departures1,9221,92625,258583,950

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines63033%86.0%1.3 min0.2%
OO SkyWest Airlines42722%87.8%-1.1 min0.2%
UA United Airlines25913%79.5%6.9 min0.8%
AA American Airlines23612%79.7%9.8 min3.4%
DL Delta Air Lines1478%86.4%-1.2 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline935%92.5%-12.2 min1.1%
G4 Allegiant Air482%75.0%6.4 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines302%93.3%-9.8 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines302%60.0%14.5 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air141%78.6%-5.6 min7.1%
F9 Frontier Airlines80%37.5%29.0 min12.5%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OMA–DENOmaha to Denver24473.4%13.7 min0.8%
OMA–ORDOmaha to Chicago21184.8%3.2 min1.4%
OMA–PHXOmaha to Phoenix18689.8%-4.0 min0.0%
OMA–ATLOmaha to Atlanta15286.2%-0.9 min0.0%
OMA–DFWOmaha to Dallas/Fort Worth12072.5%13.7 min5.8%
OMA–MDWOmaha to Chicago11189.2%-5.2 min0.9%
OMA–MSPOmaha to Minneapolis10585.7%-0.7 min0.0%
OMA–LASOmaha to Las Vegas9888.8%-1.8 min0.0%
OMA–CLTOmaha to Charlotte9073.3%19.0 min1.1%
OMA–DTWOmaha to Detroit8689.5%-7.9 min1.2%
OMA–IAHOmaha to Houston6081.7%-1.3 min0.0%
OMA–STLOmaha to St. Louis6095.0%-6.4 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 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2025Minutes
Air carrier27.0%32.7%5,410
Late-arriving aircraft35.2%39.4%7,053
National Aviation System29.7%22.2%5,953
Extreme weather8.2%5.5%1,647
Security0.0%0.2%0
20,063 delay minutes on 281 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 2025?

86.6% of 1,922 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.6% and 79.5%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In April 2024, 84.7% of 1,926 departures left on time and 0.5% were cancelled, against 86.6% and 0.8% in April 2025.

Provenance

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