Roanoke Blacksburg Regional in March 2024

86.6%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 224 domestic departures from Roanoke Blacksburg Regional (ROA). 86.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.7% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so ROA departures were 8.1 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at ROA that month were on time 90.2% of the time (224 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 54%, late-arriving aircraft 25% and national aviation system 22%.

On time 85.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.3%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from ROA 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	ROA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	86.6%	—	70.8%	78.5%
Arrived on time	85.7%	—	69.2%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	3.2%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.0 min	—	29.1 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	8	—	6	19,726
Scheduled departures	224	—	2,066	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
9E Endeavor Air	88	39%	89.8%	-4.9 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	61	27%	88.5%	4.0 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	31	14%	87.1%	6.1 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	26	12%	69.2%	17.6 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	18	8%	77.8%	1.6 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
ROA–ATL	Roanoke to Atlanta	93	88.2%	2.0 min	0.0%
ROA–ORD	Roanoke to Chicago	61	88.5%	4.0 min	0.0%
ROA–LGA	Roanoke to New York	52	80.8%	0.5 min	0.0%
ROA–PIE	Roanoke to St. Petersburg	9	77.8%	-1.7 min	0.0%
ROA–SFB	Roanoke to Sanford	9	77.8%	4.8 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	53.5%	32.1%	1,125
Late-arriving aircraft	24.6%	42.1%	516
National Aviation System	21.9%	21.4%	460
Extreme weather	0.0%	4.2%	0
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

2,101 delay minutes on 32 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 March 2024?

86.6% of 224 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.7% 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 ROA · methodology · corrections.