On-Time Report

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Airport month · January 2024

Portland International Jetport in January 2024

74.6%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 599 domestic departures from Portland International Jetport (PWM). 74.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 72.8% 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 PWM departures were 0.6 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PWM that month were on time 68.3% of the time (599 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 54%, late-arriving aircraft 27% and national aviation system 13%.

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

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

MeasureJan 2024Year earlierPWM, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time74.6%—80.0%74.0%
Arrived on time72.8%—78.2%72.9%
Cancelled7.0%—2.6%3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)26.5 min—17.2 min18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day20—3018,242
Scheduled departures599—10,925547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
9E Endeavor Air16127%73.3%8.3 min6.2%
OH PSA Airlines11319%61.9%13.5 min8.8%
WN Southwest Airlines9115%73.6%5.1 min5.5%
YX Republic Airline7412%79.7%-7.4 min9.5%
AA American Airlines5910%72.9%109.0 min1.7%
UA United Airlines346%82.4%-12.4 min14.7%
DL Delta Air Lines315%83.9%1.5 min3.2%
F9 Frontier Airlines315%71.0%-7.7 min6.5%
OO SkyWest Airlines51%60.0%-7.2 min20.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
PWM–DCAPortland to Washington11061.8%13.8 min9.1%
PWM–BWIPortland to Baltimore9173.6%5.1 min5.5%
PWM–LGAPortland to New York8374.7%7.5 min7.2%
PWM–JFKPortland to New York5068.0%12.4 min6.0%
PWM–IADPortland to Washington4075.0%3.9 min7.5%
PWM–EWRPortland to Newark3982.1%-15.7 min15.4%
PWM–ATLPortland to Atlanta3183.9%1.5 min3.2%
PWM–CLTPortland to Charlotte3174.2%198.8 min0.0%
PWM–DTWPortland to Detroit3174.2%3.1 min9.7%
PWM–MCOPortland to Orlando3171.0%-7.7 min6.5%
PWM–ORDPortland to Chicago3187.1%-17.6 min6.5%
PWM–PHLPortland to Philadelphia3171.0%5.6 min3.2%

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 carrier53.8%32.6%8,051
Late-arriving aircraft27.0%39.0%4,031
National Aviation System13.3%17.9%1,994
Extreme weather5.9%10.3%875
Security0.0%0.2%0
14,951 delay minutes on 120 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 PWM on time in January 2024?

74.6% of 599 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 72.8% 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 PWM · methodology · corrections.