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Airport month · January 2024

Chicago O'Hare International in January 2024

66.4%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 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 20,321 domestic departures from Chicago O'Hare International (ORD). 66.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 62.7% reached their destination on time; 7.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so ORD departures were 7.6 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at ORD that month were on time 68.0% of the time (20,327 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 38%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 18%.

Every scheduled departure from ORD in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureJan 2024Year earlierORD, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time66.4%—71.4%74.0%
Arrived on time62.7%—69.4%72.9%
Cancelled7.0%—2.8%3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)25.9 min—22.3 min18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day677—98618,242
Scheduled departures20,321—359,911547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
UA United Airlines6,67933%65.8%17.2 min7.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines4,11520%55.5%28.0 min10.6%
AA American Airlines3,68618%61.8%23.1 min2.0%
MQ Envoy Air2,13811%59.6%19.3 min7.3%
YX Republic Airline1,3767%73.5%2.9 min6.0%
WN Southwest Airlines7634%61.9%11.9 min10.1%
NK Spirit Airlines6373%63.0%13.9 min2.7%
DL Delta Air Lines5873%69.8%17.6 min3.4%
AS Alaska Airlines1571%58.0%5.4 min22.3%
B6 JetBlue Airways900%64.4%46.5 min7.8%
F9 Frontier Airlines860%62.8%11.6 min5.8%
9E Endeavor Air70%85.7%-5.3 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
ORD–LGAChicago to New York78964.1%20.0 min6.1%
ORD–DCAChicago to Washington51166.1%18.5 min5.7%
ORD–LAXChicago to Los Angeles50865.9%13.0 min6.9%
ORD–PHXChicago to Phoenix50570.1%13.0 min5.3%
ORD–DENChicago to Denver48365.0%16.6 min10.6%
ORD–BOSChicago to Boston46663.1%24.9 min7.9%
ORD–DFWChicago to Dallas/Fort Worth46458.8%22.3 min3.0%
ORD–MCOChicago to Orlando46360.7%17.5 min5.8%
ORD–EWRChicago to Newark42963.6%12.9 min10.7%
ORD–ATLChicago to Atlanta42569.4%19.6 min2.4%
ORD–MIAChicago to Miami42361.2%18.8 min4.0%
ORD–LASChicago to Las Vegas39965.9%9.7 min7.0%

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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2024Minutes
Air carrier28.1%32.6%140,398
Late-arriving aircraft37.9%39.0%189,640
National Aviation System18.2%17.9%91,249
Extreme weather15.5%10.3%77,647
Security0.3%0.2%1,263
500,197 delay minutes on 6,077 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 ORD on time in January 2024?

66.4% of 20,321 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 62.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 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 January 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for ORD · methodology · corrections.