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Airport month · April 2024

Pittsburgh International in April 2024

85.2%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 3,535 domestic departures from Pittsburgh International (PIT). 85.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.6% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so PIT departures were 4.7 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PIT that month were on time 81.2% of the time (3,534 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 34%, late-arriving aircraft 33% and air carrier 31%.

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

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

MeasureApr 2024Year earlierPIT, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time85.2%—80.7%80.5%
Arrived on time83.6%—79.7%80.2%
Cancelled0.5%—2.0%0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)12.0 min—14.4 min14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day118—11719,406
Scheduled departures3,535—42,857582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines85924%83.1%1.4 min0.3%
YX Republic Airline79522%89.2%-5.5 min0.5%
AA American Airlines49814%77.3%15.1 min0.4%
NK Spirit Airlines2868%79.7%1.4 min2.1%
UA United Airlines2286%72.4%18.1 min0.4%
DL Delta Air Lines2246%93.3%-7.7 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air1685%88.7%5.8 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air1143%79.8%2.0 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines1113%90.1%7.1 min0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways903%85.6%11.9 min3.3%
MQ Envoy Air862%80.2%4.5 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines361%63.9%11.1 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
PIT–LGAPittsburgh to New York26989.2%2.6 min0.4%
PIT–ATLPittsburgh to Atlanta24591.4%-5.2 min0.0%
PIT–ORDPittsburgh to Chicago24285.1%0.2 min0.0%
PIT–MCOPittsburgh to Orlando21983.6%-0.7 min1.4%
PIT–EWRPittsburgh to Newark18083.3%-2.1 min1.1%
PIT–BOSPittsburgh to Boston16581.8%9.3 min2.4%
PIT–JFKPittsburgh to New York15390.8%-2.7 min0.0%
PIT–CLTPittsburgh to Charlotte14981.2%4.3 min0.0%
PIT–DENPittsburgh to Denver14677.4%4.9 min0.0%
PIT–DCAPittsburgh to Washington14279.6%3.2 min0.0%
PIT–DFWPittsburgh to Dallas/Fort Worth11866.9%21.4 min1.7%
PIT–PHLPittsburgh to Philadelphia11876.3%18.4 min0.0%

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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2024Minutes
Air carrier30.8%33.6%12,318
Late-arriving aircraft32.6%41.0%13,032
National Aviation System34.2%20.0%13,668
Extreme weather2.2%5.1%889
Security0.1%0.2%52
39,959 delay minutes on 555 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 April 2024?

85.2% of 3,535 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.6% 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 PIT · methodology · corrections.