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Airport month · August 2024

Ontario International in August 2024

85.0%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 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 2,428 domestic departures from Ontario International (ONT). 85.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.6% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 75.4% of flights departed on time and 74.7% arrived on time, so ONT departures were 9.6 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in August 2023, the airport had 2,201 departures with 76.3% leaving on time: a change of +8.7 points, with flights up 10%.

Flights arriving at ONT that month were on time 80.3% of the time (2,428 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 44%, air carrier 36% and national aviation system 18%.

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

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

MeasureAug 2024Aug 2023ONT, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Aug 2024
Departed on time85.0%76.3%80.3%75.4%
Arrived on time84.6%77.1%81.2%74.7%
Cancelled0.9%3.2%0.9%2.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)10.3 min18.9 min13.7 min18.4 min
Scheduled departures a day81737120,634
Scheduled departures2,4282,20125,854619,025

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines98441%88.5%-1.9 min0.1%
F9 Frontier Airlines35915%73.3%11.1 min3.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines31313%88.5%-1.8 min0.0%
AA American Airlines28612%82.2%7.7 min0.3%
UA United Airlines1607%85.6%-0.8 min1.9%
DL Delta Air Lines1476%91.2%-5.1 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines1175%79.5%4.2 min0.9%
B6 JetBlue Airways311%64.5%8.8 min9.7%
HA Hawaiian Airlines311%80.6%7.2 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
ONT–PHXOntario to Phoenix29088.3%0.5 min0.7%
ONT–DENOntario to Denver26381.4%2.7 min1.1%
ONT–SEAOntario to Seattle25582.4%1.8 min1.2%
ONT–LASOntario to Las Vegas23275.4%11.3 min1.3%
ONT–DFWOntario to Dallas/Fort Worth20878.4%6.9 min1.4%
ONT–SMFOntario to Sacramento18892.0%-6.7 min0.5%
ONT–SFOOntario to San Francisco14075.7%2.6 min1.4%
ONT–OAKOntario to Oakland13792.7%-4.2 min0.0%
ONT–SJCOntario to San Jose13488.1%-3.9 min0.0%
ONT–SLCOntario to Salt Lake City11089.1%-3.7 min0.9%
ONT–ATLOntario to Atlanta8592.9%-5.7 min0.0%
ONT–PDXOntario to Portland8589.4%-0.8 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), August 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Aug 2024Minutes
Air carrier35.6%33.8%8,101
Late-arriving aircraft43.7%39.8%9,947
National Aviation System18.4%20.4%4,182
Extreme weather2.2%5.9%502
Security0.1%0.1%29
22,761 delay minutes on 349 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 August 2024?

85.0% of 2,428 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 75.4% and 74.7%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In August 2023, 76.3% of 2,201 departures left on time and 3.2% were cancelled, against 85.0% and 0.9% in August 2024.

Provenance

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