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Airport month · May 2024
Raleigh-Durham International in May 2024
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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 5,489 domestic departures from Raleigh-Durham International (RDU). 75.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 72.0% reached their destination on time; 1.1% were cancelled.
Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so RDU departures were 2.1 points above the national departure figure.
Flights arriving at RDU that month were on time 71.0% of the time (5,492 scheduled arrivals).
Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 47%, national aviation system 26% and air carrier 22%.
- On time 72.0%
- Arrived 15+ minutes late 26.6%
- Cancelled 1.1%
- Diverted 0.3%
May 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation
| Measure | May 2024 | Year earlier | RDU, 12 months to Jul 2026 | All reported flights, May 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed on time | 75.5% | — | 77.5% | 73.4% |
| Arrived on time | 72.0% | — | 77.1% | 72.3% |
| Cancelled | 1.1% | — | 2.3% | 1.4% |
| Average departure delay (late minutes only) | 20.5 min | — | 17.6 min | 20.8 min |
| Scheduled departures a day | 183 | — | 152 | 20,325 |
| Scheduled departures | 5,489 | — | 55,461 | 609,743 |
Airlines that month
| Reporting carrier | Flights | Share | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA American Airlines | 990 | 18% | 65.3% | 25.7 min | 2.4% |
| DL Delta Air Lines | 975 | 18% | 81.4% | 4.3 min | 0.1% |
| WN Southwest Airlines | 753 | 14% | 72.1% | 12.7 min | 0.1% |
| 9E Endeavor Air | 565 | 10% | 74.3% | 14.2 min | 1.8% |
| F9 Frontier Airlines | 516 | 9% | 64.1% | 19.9 min | 2.7% |
| UA United Airlines | 501 | 9% | 72.7% | 11.5 min | 0.6% |
| YX Republic Airline | 484 | 9% | 81.2% | 3.7 min | 0.6% |
| B6 JetBlue Airways | 301 | 5% | 75.1% | 10.7 min | 1.0% |
| OO SkyWest Airlines | 135 | 2% | 48.9% | 52.4 min | 0.0% |
| OH PSA Airlines | 98 | 2% | 64.3% | 16.0 min | 0.0% |
| MQ Envoy Air | 73 | 1% | 72.6% | 7.0 min | 1.4% |
| AS Alaska Airlines | 55 | 1% | 56.4% | 20.2 min | 0.0% |
Busiest routes that month
| Route | Cities | Flights | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RDU–ATL | Raleigh/Durham to Atlanta | 399 | 74.9% | 10.0 min | 0.5% |
| RDU–JFK | Raleigh/Durham to New York | 372 | 76.6% | 8.8 min | 1.6% |
| RDU–LGA | Raleigh/Durham to New York | 369 | 74.8% | 15.9 min | 0.5% |
| RDU–CLT | Raleigh/Durham to Charlotte | 357 | 60.8% | 25.0 min | 1.7% |
| RDU–BOS | Raleigh/Durham to Boston | 275 | 83.6% | 1.2 min | 0.0% |
| RDU–ORD | Raleigh/Durham to Chicago | 275 | 70.5% | 18.8 min | 1.5% |
| RDU–EWR | Raleigh/Durham to Newark | 241 | 75.1% | 15.0 min | 0.8% |
| RDU–MCO | Raleigh/Durham to Orlando | 237 | 69.2% | 18.3 min | 0.4% |
| RDU–DCA | Raleigh/Durham to Washington | 235 | 62.1% | 16.9 min | 2.1% |
| RDU–BNA | Raleigh/Durham to Nashville | 215 | 79.5% | 9.4 min | 0.0% |
| RDU–PHL | Raleigh/Durham to Philadelphia | 208 | 76.0% | 17.8 min | 1.9% |
| RDU–DFW | Raleigh/Durham to Dallas/Fort Worth | 201 | 54.2% | 45.8 min | 6.5% |
By scheduled departure hour
Delay causes
Questions and answers
How many flights left RDU on time in May 2024?
75.5% of 5,489 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 72.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.
How does that compare with a year earlier?
May 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 May 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.