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Airport month · January 2024

Philadelphia International in January 2024

75.4%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 6,943 domestic departures from Philadelphia International (PHL). 75.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 71.4% reached their destination on time; 2.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so PHL departures were 1.4 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PHL that month were on time 72.4% of the time (6,939 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 37%, national aviation system 29% and air carrier 22%.

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

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

MeasureJan 2024Year earlierPHL, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time75.4%—74.1%74.0%
Arrived on time71.4%—73.4%72.9%
Cancelled2.6%—2.7%3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)20.4 min—20.2 min18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day231—27618,242
Scheduled departures6,943—100,793547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
AA American Airlines3,07844%70.3%18.1 min1.9%
F9 Frontier Airlines84112%65.3%20.2 min2.6%
YX Republic Airline70610%79.6%1.8 min4.1%
OH PSA Airlines66710%72.7%11.6 min4.6%
DL Delta Air Lines4086%79.4%7.0 min0.5%
NK Spirit Airlines3976%68.0%16.7 min1.0%
WN Southwest Airlines3705%67.8%11.4 min3.8%
UA United Airlines2984%78.2%4.7 min4.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways881%71.6%8.9 min2.3%
9E Endeavor Air501%70.0%12.2 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines280%42.9%16.9 min28.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines120%58.3%131.3 min8.3%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
PHL–MCOPhiladelphia to Orlando52865.7%20.4 min1.5%
PHL–ATLPhiladelphia to Atlanta42074.8%5.5 min1.0%
PHL–BOSPhiladelphia to Boston33771.8%13.4 min2.1%
PHL–CLTPhiladelphia to Charlotte31571.7%26.1 min1.6%
PHL–ORDPhiladelphia to Chicago29871.8%17.3 min2.7%
PHL–MIAPhiladelphia to Miami26570.6%27.6 min0.0%
PHL–TPAPhiladelphia to Tampa24669.1%20.4 min2.8%
PHL–FLLPhiladelphia to Fort Lauderdale24471.7%17.5 min1.2%
PHL–DFWPhiladelphia to Dallas/Fort Worth24170.5%16.0 min2.5%
PHL–DTWPhiladelphia to Detroit22869.3%25.3 min4.4%
PHL–BNAPhiladelphia to Nashville21075.2%1.8 min6.7%
PHL–PHXPhiladelphia to Phoenix21078.6%5.8 min1.0%

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 carrier22.3%32.6%35,844
Late-arriving aircraft37.0%39.0%59,532
National Aviation System28.8%17.9%46,339
Extreme weather11.8%10.3%19,070
Security0.1%0.2%199
160,984 delay minutes on 1,780 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 PHL on time in January 2024?

75.4% of 6,943 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 71.4% 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 PHL · methodology · corrections.