Roanoke Blacksburg Regional in January 2024

70.7%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 256 domestic departures from Roanoke Blacksburg Regional (ROA). 70.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 67.6% reached their destination on time; 5.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so ROA departures were 3.3 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at ROA that month were on time 69.3% of the time (257 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 45%, air carrier 42% and national aviation system 13%.

On time 67.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 26.6%
Cancelled 5.9%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	ROA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	70.7%	—	70.8%	74.0%
Arrived on time	67.6%	—	69.2%	72.9%
Cancelled	5.9%	—	3.2%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	31.2 min	—	29.1 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	9	—	6	18,242
Scheduled departures	256	—	2,066	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
9E Endeavor Air	82	32%	73.2%	22.5 min	6.1%
OO SkyWest Airlines	50	20%	56.0%	43.1 min	14.0%
OH PSA Airlines	48	19%	56.3%	23.7 min	6.3%
DL Delta Air Lines	31	12%	77.4%	18.0 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	26	10%	76.9%	15.8 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	19	7%	73.7%	11.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
ROA–ATL	Roanoke to Atlanta	91	73.6%	26.4 min	2.2%
ROA–ORD	Roanoke to Chicago	50	56.0%	43.1 min	14.0%
ROA–CLT	Roanoke to Charlotte	48	56.3%	23.7 min	6.3%
ROA–LGA	Roanoke to New York	48	77.1%	7.8 min	6.3%
ROA–PIE	Roanoke to St. Petersburg	10	80.0%	8.7 min	0.0%
ROA–SFB	Roanoke to Sanford	9	66.7%	14.6 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

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 category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	42.1%	32.6%	3,243
Late-arriving aircraft	44.6%	39.0%	3,437
National Aviation System	12.6%	17.9%	972
Extreme weather	0.8%	10.3%	59
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

7,711 delay minutes on 68 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 ROA on time in January 2024?

70.7% of 256 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 67.6% 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 ROA · methodology · corrections.