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Airport month · May 2024

Ontario International in May 2024

77.9%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 2,259 domestic departures from Ontario International (ONT). 77.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 77.6% reached their destination on time; 1.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so ONT departures were 4.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at ONT that month were on time 71.2% of the time (2,260 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 45%, air carrier 35% and national aviation system 20%.

Every scheduled departure from ONT in May 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureMay 2024Year earlierONT, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time77.9%—80.3%73.4%
Arrived on time77.6%—81.2%72.3%
Cancelled1.1%—0.9%1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)16.2 min—13.7 min20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day75—7120,325
Scheduled departures2,259—25,854609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines92441%79.0%3.6 min0.6%
F9 Frontier Airlines34015%67.9%11.9 min1.2%
AA American Airlines31314%70.3%31.9 min4.5%
OO SkyWest Airlines25511%85.1%0.6 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines1416%89.4%-0.3 min0.0%
UA United Airlines1145%85.1%0.5 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines1105%76.4%7.7 min0.9%
B6 JetBlue Airways311%87.1%-7.5 min0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines311%67.7%21.8 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
ONT–PHXOntario to Phoenix29775.8%9.4 min1.0%
ONT–SEAOntario to Seattle25485.8%1.3 min0.4%
ONT–DENOntario to Denver24783.8%0.4 min0.4%
ONT–LASOntario to Las Vegas24073.8%9.3 min0.4%
ONT–DFWOntario to Dallas/Fort Worth21861.9%41.3 min5.0%
ONT–SMFOntario to Sacramento15386.9%0.0 min0.0%
ONT–OAKOntario to Oakland13174.8%5.6 min1.5%
ONT–SLCOntario to Salt Lake City11885.6%-1.5 min0.0%
ONT–SJCOntario to San Jose10877.8%5.1 min0.0%
ONT–SFOOntario to San Francisco9247.8%22.0 min0.0%
ONT–PDXOntario to Portland8485.7%-2.1 min1.2%
ONT–ATLOntario to Atlanta7983.5%7.1 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), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, May 2024Minutes
Air carrier34.9%29.8%11,650
Late-arriving aircraft44.6%43.0%14,902
National Aviation System19.8%20.1%6,633
Extreme weather0.7%7.0%222
Security0.1%0.1%17
33,424 delay minutes on 475 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 ONT on time in May 2024?

77.9% of 2,259 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 77.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 2024; 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.