Roanoke Blacksburg Regional in April 2024

83.6%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 226 domestic departures from Roanoke Blacksburg Regional (ROA). 83.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.2% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so ROA departures were 3.1 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at ROA that month were on time 87.2% of the time (226 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 52%, late-arriving aircraft 33% and national aviation system 15%.

On time 83.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.9%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.4%

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

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

Measure	Apr 2024	Year earlier	ROA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time	83.6%	—	70.8%	80.5%
Arrived on time	83.2%	—	69.2%	80.2%
Cancelled	0.4%	—	3.2%	0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	17.5 min	—	29.1 min	14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	8	—	6	19,406
Scheduled departures	226	—	2,066	582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
9E Endeavor Air	86	38%	79.1%	11.4 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	60	27%	93.3%	-3.3 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	30	13%	96.7%	-10.6 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	26	12%	76.9%	44.7 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	17	8%	70.6%	3.6 min	5.9%
OH PSA Airlines	7	3%	42.9%	17.9 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
ROA–ATL	Roanoke to Atlanta	90	82.2%	10.7 min	0.0%
ROA–ORD	Roanoke to Chicago	60	93.3%	-3.3 min	0.0%
ROA–LGA	Roanoke to New York	52	82.7%	16.6 min	0.0%
ROA–SFB	Roanoke to Sanford	9	77.8%	2.8 min	0.0%
ROA–PIE	Roanoke to St. Petersburg	8	62.5%	4.6 min	12.5%
ROA–CLT	Roanoke to Charlotte	7	42.9%	17.9 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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	52.2%	33.6%	1,950
Late-arriving aircraft	33.3%	41.0%	1,243
National Aviation System	14.6%	20.0%	544
Extreme weather	0.0%	5.1%	0
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

3,737 delay minutes on 36 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 April 2024?

83.6% of 226 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 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.