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Airport month · October 2024

Ontario International in October 2024

88.2%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 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 2,388 domestic departures from Ontario International (ONT). 88.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 88.3% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 85.5% of flights departed on time and 85.8% arrived on time, so ONT departures were 2.7 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2023, the airport had 2,215 departures with 84.8% leaving on time: a change of +3.4 points, with flights up 8%.

Flights arriving at ONT that month were on time 87.9% of the time (2,388 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 47%, air carrier 39% and national aviation system 13%.

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

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

MeasureOct 2024Oct 2023ONT, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Oct 2024
Departed on time88.2%84.8%80.3%85.5%
Arrived on time88.3%85.9%81.2%85.8%
Cancelled0.3%0.4%0.9%1.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)8.5 min10.2 min13.7 min9.4 min
Scheduled departures a day80747120,517
Scheduled departures2,3882,21525,854615,497

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines98641%89.1%-3.6 min0.4%
F9 Frontier Airlines32714%79.5%2.6 min0.3%
AA American Airlines29812%90.6%1.1 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines27311%87.5%-0.3 min0.0%
UA United Airlines1526%92.8%-4.8 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines1486%89.2%-2.4 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines1466%93.8%-7.8 min0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines321%87.5%-7.7 min3.1%
B6 JetBlue Airways261%88.5%-7.3 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
ONT–PHXOntario to Phoenix29289.7%-0.9 min0.3%
ONT–LASOntario to Las Vegas26478.0%4.2 min0.0%
ONT–DENOntario to Denver25990.3%-4.3 min0.0%
ONT–DFWOntario to Dallas/Fort Worth21292.9%-0.5 min0.0%
ONT–SEAOntario to Seattle20994.3%-6.5 min0.0%
ONT–SMFOntario to Sacramento19391.2%-5.9 min0.0%
ONT–SFOOntario to San Francisco16580.0%5.8 min0.6%
ONT–OAKOntario to Oakland13491.0%-6.2 min1.5%
ONT–SJCOntario to San Jose12396.7%-10.1 min0.0%
ONT–SLCOntario to Salt Lake City9497.9%-12.8 min0.0%
ONT–ATLOntario to Atlanta8490.5%-4.7 min0.0%
ONT–PDXOntario to Portland6972.5%7.7 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 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Oct 2024Minutes
Air carrier38.5%42.7%6,508
Late-arriving aircraft46.9%37.4%7,928
National Aviation System13.3%16.3%2,244
Extreme weather1.2%3.4%211
Security0.0%0.2%0
16,891 delay minutes on 270 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 October 2024?

88.2% of 2,388 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 88.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 85.5% and 85.8%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2023, 84.8% of 2,215 departures left on time and 0.4% were cancelled, against 88.2% and 0.3% in October 2024.

Provenance

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