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Airport month · October 2025

Eppley Airfield in October 2025

85.4%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 2,192 domestic departures from Eppley Airfield (OMA). 85.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.0% reached their destination on time; 0.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so OMA departures were 5.4 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 2,064 departures with 89.0% leaving on time: a change of −3.6 points, with flights up 6%.

Flights arriving at OMA that month were on time 79.9% of the time (2,193 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 40%, late-arriving aircraft 38% and national aviation system 21%.

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

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

MeasureOct 2025Oct 2024OMA, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time85.4%89.0%80.0%80.0%
Arrived on time84.0%88.9%79.8%79.1%
Cancelled0.1%0.3%1.2%0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)10.0 min7.9 min15.6 min13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day73696920,195
Scheduled departures2,1922,06425,258605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines68131%81.9%3.9 min0.1%
OO SkyWest Airlines49022%89.0%-3.4 min0.2%
UA United Airlines30314%80.2%1.5 min0.0%
AA American Airlines24211%82.6%5.2 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines1457%92.4%-5.1 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air1226%80.3%4.8 min0.8%
OH PSA Airlines623%85.5%-1.3 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air542%79.6%3.4 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines342%82.4%7.0 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines311%74.2%29.8 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline281%92.9%-8.4 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OMA–DENOmaha to Denver28881.6%1.9 min0.0%
OMA–ORDOmaha to Chicago26676.7%7.0 min0.4%
OMA–PHXOmaha to Phoenix16583.0%5.7 min0.6%
OMA–ATLOmaha to Atlanta15291.4%-4.7 min0.0%
OMA–DFWOmaha to Dallas/Fort Worth14879.7%4.8 min0.7%
OMA–MSPOmaha to Minneapolis14190.8%-0.1 min0.0%
OMA–MDWOmaha to Chicago12381.3%6.6 min0.0%
OMA–DTWOmaha to Detroit11790.6%-7.5 min0.0%
OMA–LASOmaha to Las Vegas9686.5%1.8 min0.0%
OMA–STLOmaha to St. Louis8886.4%-3.3 min0.0%
OMA–CLTOmaha to Charlotte8289.0%5.3 min0.0%
OMA–PHLOmaha to Philadelphia6285.5%-1.3 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), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Oct 2025Minutes
Air carrier40.4%34.0%8,138
Late-arriving aircraft37.9%39.7%7,630
National Aviation System21.3%22.9%4,298
Extreme weather0.4%3.3%89
Security0.0%0.1%0
20,155 delay minutes on 343 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 October 2025?

85.4% of 2,192 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024, 89.0% of 2,064 departures left on time and 0.3% were cancelled, against 85.4% and 0.1% in October 2025.

Provenance

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