Raleigh-Durham International in March 2024

80.7%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 4,830 domestic departures from Raleigh-Durham International (RDU). 80.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.2% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so RDU departures were 2.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at RDU that month were on time 77.5% of the time (4,829 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 44%, air carrier 36% and national aviation system 19%.

On time 81.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.1%
Cancelled 0.5%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	RDU, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	80.7%	—	77.5%	78.5%
Arrived on time	81.2%	—	77.1%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.5%	—	2.3%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	16.1 min	—	17.6 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	161	—	152	19,726
Scheduled departures	4,830	—	55,461	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AA American Airlines	958	20%	79.3%	12.3 min	1.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	907	19%	83.6%	6.4 min	0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	763	16%	78.5%	6.7 min	0.3%
9E Endeavor Air	601	12%	81.5%	0.5 min	0.2%
UA United Airlines	480	10%	88.8%	-3.6 min	0.2%
YX Republic Airline	439	9%	87.5%	-4.3 min	0.2%
B6 JetBlue Airways	239	5%	69.0%	15.1 min	1.3%
F9 Frontier Airlines	192	4%	74.5%	28.6 min	2.1%
MQ Envoy Air	114	2%	85.1%	0.0 min	0.9%
OH PSA Airlines	65	1%	83.1%	-0.6 min	0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	41	1%	56.1%	27.5 min	2.4%
AS Alaska Airlines	31	1%	80.6%	-3.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
RDU–ATL	Raleigh/Durham to Atlanta	395	83.0%	6.4 min	0.0%
RDU–LGA	Raleigh/Durham to New York	327	83.5%	2.5 min	0.3%
RDU–JFK	Raleigh/Durham to New York	311	79.1%	4.5 min	0.3%
RDU–CLT	Raleigh/Durham to Charlotte	302	80.5%	10.0 min	0.3%
RDU–MCO	Raleigh/Durham to Orlando	261	69.0%	28.9 min	1.1%
RDU–ORD	Raleigh/Durham to Chicago	244	89.8%	-6.1 min	0.0%
RDU–DCA	Raleigh/Durham to Washington	227	76.2%	12.1 min	0.0%
RDU–EWR	Raleigh/Durham to Newark	220	88.6%	-6.5 min	0.5%
RDU–BOS	Raleigh/Durham to Boston	202	86.6%	-1.2 min	0.5%
RDU–MIA	Raleigh/Durham to Miami	202	76.7%	11.2 min	3.0%
RDU–BNA	Raleigh/Durham to Nashville	193	85.0%	-1.4 min	0.0%
RDU–PHL	Raleigh/Durham to Philadelphia	190	76.8%	13.3 min	0.5%

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 category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	36.1%	32.1%	25,878
Late-arriving aircraft	43.6%	42.1%	31,252
National Aviation System	19.4%	21.4%	13,880
Extreme weather	0.7%	4.2%	512
Security	0.2%	0.2%	109

71,631 delay minutes on 872 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left RDU on time in March 2024?

80.7% of 4,830 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.2% 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 RDU · methodology · corrections.