On-Time Report

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Airport month · January 2025

Ontario International in January 2025

83.7%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 January 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,941 domestic departures from Ontario International (ONT). 83.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.0% reached their destination on time; 2.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so ONT departures were 4.4 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 1,888 departures with 82.0% leaving on time: a change of +1.7 points, with flights up 3%.

Flights arriving at ONT that month were on time 82.4% of the time (1,944 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 45%, air carrier 27% and national aviation system 18%.

Every scheduled departure from ONT in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureJan 2025Jan 2024ONT, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time83.7%82.0%80.3%79.3%
Arrived on time84.0%83.2%81.2%78.6%
Cancelled2.0%2.2%0.9%3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)11.6 min14.5 min13.7 min14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day65637117,992
Scheduled departures1,9411,88825,854539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines87745%86.3%-1.9 min1.6%
AA American Airlines21411%81.3%4.3 min3.7%
OO SkyWest Airlines20210%85.6%7.6 min1.5%
F9 Frontier Airlines18510%74.6%13.4 min1.1%
UA United Airlines1457%85.5%-3.7 min2.1%
DL Delta Air Lines1287%87.5%-0.2 min3.1%
AS Alaska Airlines1186%76.3%7.4 min2.5%
MQ Envoy Air412%90.2%-5.2 min0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines312%80.6%-3.3 min3.2%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
ONT–PHXOntario to Phoenix25487.8%2.1 min1.2%
ONT–LASOntario to Las Vegas22178.3%10.8 min1.4%
ONT–DENOntario to Denver20879.3%1.2 min1.0%
ONT–SEAOntario to Seattle16678.9%6.2 min1.8%
ONT–DFWOntario to Dallas/Fort Worth15680.1%3.1 min5.1%
ONT–SMFOntario to Sacramento15688.5%-6.6 min1.3%
ONT–OAKOntario to Oakland12088.3%-6.7 min0.8%
ONT–SJCOntario to San Jose10290.2%-6.5 min1.0%
ONT–SFOOntario to San Francisco10190.1%6.0 min1.0%
ONT–SLCOntario to Salt Lake City9790.7%-0.6 min0.0%
ONT–PDXOntario to Portland8682.6%5.2 min3.5%
ONT–ATLOntario to Atlanta6684.8%-1.6 min6.1%

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), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2025Minutes
Air carrier26.8%36.2%5,432
Late-arriving aircraft45.2%34.7%9,165
National Aviation System18.3%19.9%3,706
Extreme weather9.7%9.1%1,974
Security0.1%0.2%20
20,297 delay minutes on 271 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 January 2025?

83.7% of 1,941 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 82.0% of 1,888 departures left on time and 2.2% were cancelled, against 83.7% and 2.0% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; 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.