On-Time Report

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Airport month · March 2024

Pittsburgh International in March 2024

83.4%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 3,614 domestic departures from Pittsburgh International (PIT). 83.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.9% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so PIT departures were 4.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PIT that month were on time 79.8% of the time (3,617 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 34%, national aviation system 33% and air carrier 30%.

Every scheduled departure from PIT in March 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureMar 2024Year earlierPIT, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time83.4%—80.7%78.5%
Arrived on time83.9%—79.7%78.3%
Cancelled0.7%—2.0%0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)12.7 min—14.4 min15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day121—11719,726
Scheduled departures3,614—42,857591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines93426%78.9%5.8 min1.3%
YX Republic Airline81823%92.9%-10.7 min0.2%
AA American Airlines43712%83.1%5.5 min0.5%
NK Spirit Airlines34510%69.9%18.3 min1.2%
UA United Airlines2086%84.1%1.1 min0.5%
DL Delta Air Lines2026%92.6%-8.2 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air1865%87.1%-5.4 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air1093%78.9%11.2 min1.8%
OO SkyWest Airlines1033%90.3%-1.0 min0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways933%86.0%-3.6 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines782%82.1%1.6 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air652%83.1%-5.7 min1.5%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
PIT–LGAPittsburgh to New York26689.8%-4.5 min0.0%
PIT–ORDPittsburgh to Chicago24990.0%-5.7 min0.8%
PIT–MCOPittsburgh to Orlando24072.5%13.3 min1.7%
PIT–ATLPittsburgh to Atlanta22990.0%-5.0 min0.0%
PIT–EWRPittsburgh to Newark19090.5%-9.2 min0.5%
PIT–CLTPittsburgh to Charlotte15585.2%5.8 min0.0%
PIT–JFKPittsburgh to New York15591.0%-8.7 min0.6%
PIT–BOSPittsburgh to Boston15088.7%-3.5 min0.0%
PIT–DCAPittsburgh to Washington14887.2%-3.3 min0.0%
PIT–DENPittsburgh to Denver13387.2%-2.3 min3.0%
PIT–DFWPittsburgh to Dallas/Fort Worth12478.2%5.2 min0.8%
PIT–TPAPittsburgh to Tampa12374.8%14.0 min0.8%

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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Mar 2024Minutes
Air carrier30.3%32.1%12,831
Late-arriving aircraft34.3%42.1%14,533
National Aviation System33.4%21.4%14,147
Extreme weather1.9%4.2%814
Security0.0%0.2%0
42,325 delay minutes on 552 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 PIT on time in March 2024?

83.4% of 3,614 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

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