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Airport month · October 2025

Reno/Tahoe International in October 2025

81.4%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,616 domestic departures from Reno/Tahoe International (RNO). 81.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.4% reached their destination on time; 0.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so RNO departures were 1.4 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 1,860 departures with 86.7% leaving on time: a change of −5.3 points, with flights down 13%.

Flights arriving at RNO that month were on time 78.8% of the time (1,615 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 40%, air carrier 37% and national aviation system 19%.

Every scheduled departure from RNO in October 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

October 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureOct 2025Oct 2024RNO, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time81.4%86.7%80.6%80.0%
Arrived on time80.4%84.7%80.2%79.1%
Cancelled0.2%0.3%0.9%0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)15.6 min8.2 min14.1 min13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day54625820,195
Scheduled departures1,6161,86021,028605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines66941%80.7%4.1 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines25716%84.4%0.8 min0.4%
UA United Airlines25516%78.4%3.8 min0.4%
AA American Airlines19412%80.4%17.7 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines845%82.1%17.6 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines755%72.0%5.7 min1.3%
NK Spirit Airlines513%88.2%0.4 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines312%61.3%33.4 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
RNO–LASReno to Las Vegas33878.7%5.4 min0.0%
RNO–DENReno to Denver23087.8%0.6 min0.4%
RNO–PHXReno to Phoenix18986.2%3.2 min0.0%
RNO–LAXReno to Los Angeles17686.9%1.8 min0.0%
RNO–SFOReno to San Francisco13666.2%10.4 min0.0%
RNO–SLCReno to Salt Lake City11588.7%-2.6 min0.0%
RNO–DFWReno to Dallas/Fort Worth9276.1%30.0 min0.0%
RNO–SANReno to San Diego8672.1%13.8 min1.2%
RNO–SEAReno to Seattle7572.0%5.7 min1.3%
RNO–LGBReno to Long Beach5784.2%0.4 min0.0%
RNO–BURReno to Burbank4877.1%4.1 min0.0%
RNO–ORDReno to Chicago3180.6%-1.3 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), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Oct 2025Minutes
Air carrier36.5%34.0%8,718
Late-arriving aircraft39.7%39.7%9,498
National Aviation System19.3%22.9%4,618
Extreme weather4.5%3.3%1,079
Security0.0%0.1%0
23,913 delay minutes on 313 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 RNO on time in October 2025?

81.4% of 1,616 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024, 86.7% of 1,860 departures left on time and 0.3% were cancelled, against 81.4% and 0.2% in October 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for October 2025; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for RNO · methodology · corrections.