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Airport month · April 2024

Norfolk International in April 2024

82.0%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,701 domestic departures from Norfolk International (ORF). 82.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.8% reached their destination on time; 1.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so ORF departures were 1.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at ORF that month were on time 79.3% of the time (1,702 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 48%, air carrier 31% and national aviation system 20%.

Every scheduled departure from ORF in April 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureApr 2024Year earlierORF, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time82.0%—78.3%80.5%
Arrived on time79.8%—77.4%80.2%
Cancelled1.0%—2.5%0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)14.1 min—18.2 min14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day57—5519,406
Scheduled departures1,701—20,186582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
AA American Airlines28917%74.7%16.2 min1.0%
WN Southwest Airlines25415%83.1%1.2 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines23614%79.2%5.6 min0.0%
UA United Airlines23214%82.8%1.0 min1.3%
9E Endeavor Air20012%83.5%3.3 min2.0%
DL Delta Air Lines19111%80.1%5.3 min0.5%
YX Republic Airline1388%79.7%-1.6 min2.9%
NK Spirit Airlines966%74.0%11.4 min2.1%
MQ Envoy Air302%90.0%-9.6 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air251%72.0%5.3 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines101%50.0%13.0 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
ORF–CLTNorfolk to Charlotte22976.4%10.5 min0.0%
ORF–ATLNorfolk to Atlanta19180.1%5.3 min0.5%
ORF–LGANorfolk to New York13482.8%2.1 min2.2%
ORF–BWINorfolk to Baltimore12088.3%-0.8 min0.0%
ORF–DCANorfolk to Washington9078.9%4.4 min0.0%
ORF–DFWNorfolk to Dallas/Fort Worth9071.1%22.0 min2.2%
ORF–JFKNorfolk to New York9077.8%8.2 min3.3%
ORF–ORDNorfolk to Chicago9083.3%-2.1 min1.1%
ORF–EWRNorfolk to Newark8278.0%-1.1 min3.7%
ORF–IADNorfolk to Washington8286.6%-3.5 min1.2%
ORF–MCONorfolk to Orlando7078.6%8.6 min0.0%
ORF–MIANorfolk to Miami6073.3%21.0 min1.7%

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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2024Minutes
Air carrier30.7%33.6%6,949
Late-arriving aircraft47.9%41.0%10,820
National Aviation System19.8%20.0%4,473
Extreme weather1.5%5.1%346
Security0.1%0.2%23
22,611 delay minutes on 322 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 ORF on time in April 2024?

82.0% of 1,701 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

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