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Airport month · August 2023

Ontario International in August 2023

76.3%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 August 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 2,201 domestic departures from Ontario International (ONT). 76.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 77.1% reached their destination on time; 3.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 76.9% arrived on time, so ONT departures were level with the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at ONT that month were on time 70.0% of the time (2,202 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 44%, late-arriving aircraft 42% and national aviation system 14%.

Every scheduled departure from ONT in August 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

August 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureAug 2023Year earlierONT, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Aug 2023
Departed on time76.3%—80.3%76.7%
Arrived on time77.1%—81.2%76.9%
Cancelled3.2%—0.9%1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)18.9 min—13.7 min17.3 min
Scheduled departures a day73—7120,100
Scheduled departures2,201—25,854602,987

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines1,03047%77.8%4.9 min4.0%
AA American Airlines29814%79.9%29.4 min0.7%
DL Delta Air Lines23711%83.5%6.5 min1.3%
F9 Frontier Airlines22810%66.2%13.3 min8.8%
AS Alaska Airlines1477%81.6%1.2 min0.7%
UA United Airlines1155%73.9%4.7 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines834%89.2%-2.3 min1.2%
B6 JetBlue Airways311%41.9%113.0 min9.7%
HA Hawaiian Airlines311%48.4%17.9 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air10%100.0%-25.0 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
ONT–DENOntario to Denver26479.5%5.7 min3.8%
ONT–LASOntario to Las Vegas24466.4%11.2 min5.7%
ONT–PHXOntario to Phoenix23979.9%10.2 min3.8%
ONT–DFWOntario to Dallas/Fort Worth23373.8%26.5 min2.6%
ONT–SEAOntario to Seattle21382.6%8.8 min0.0%
ONT–SMFOntario to Sacramento16282.7%-0.5 min3.7%
ONT–OAKOntario to Oakland14377.6%5.5 min3.5%
ONT–SJCOntario to San Jose14381.8%2.9 min2.8%
ONT–ATLOntario to Atlanta12182.6%-2.0 min3.3%
ONT–SFOOntario to San Francisco12071.7%6.8 min3.3%
ONT–SLCOntario to Salt Lake City9386.0%-2.1 min1.1%
ONT–AUSOntario to Austin3183.9%4.0 min3.2%

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), August 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Aug 2023Minutes
Air carrier43.8%36.7%15,918
Late-arriving aircraft42.4%42.2%15,413
National Aviation System13.7%15.7%4,962
Extreme weather0.0%5.1%16
Security0.0%0.2%0
36,309 delay minutes on 429 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
September 2023 →

Questions and answers

How many flights left ONT on time in August 2023?

76.3% of 2,201 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 77.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 76.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

August 2022 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 August 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for ONT · methodology · corrections.