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Airport month · August 2023

Frederick Douglass Grtr Rochester International in August 2023

78.4%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 August 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 1,104 domestic departures from Frederick Douglass Grtr Rochester International (ROC). 78.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.3% reached their destination on time; 1.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 76.9% arrived on time, so ROC departures were 1.7 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at ROC that month were on time 73.8% of the time (1,102 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 41%, air carrier 40% and national aviation system 16%.

Every scheduled departure from ROC in August 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

August 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureAug 2023Year earlierROC, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Aug 2023
Departed on time78.4%—75.3%76.7%
Arrived on time80.3%—74.8%76.9%
Cancelled1.4%—2.7%1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)18.6 min—19.9 min17.3 min
Scheduled departures a day37—2820,100
Scheduled departures1,104—10,281602,987

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
9E Endeavor Air29427%85.7%0.0 min1.0%
WN Southwest Airlines17216%76.2%8.2 min0.6%
OH PSA Airlines11711%84.6%12.4 min0.9%
DL Delta Air Lines959%67.4%37.0 min3.2%
B6 JetBlue Airways938%80.6%0.9 min1.1%
UA United Airlines848%78.6%10.9 min2.4%
YX Republic Airline666%92.4%-12.2 min1.5%
AA American Airlines636%73.0%24.8 min3.2%
OO SkyWest Airlines515%74.5%33.4 min2.0%
NK Spirit Airlines484%83.3%6.7 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air172%76.5%2.3 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air40%25.0%31.8 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
ROC–JFKRochester to New York15583.2%-2.3 min1.3%
ROC–ORDRochester to Chicago13175.6%21.3 min1.5%
ROC–DTWRochester to Detroit12084.2%5.0 min0.8%
ROC–BWIRochester to Baltimore10879.6%3.6 min0.9%
ROC–CLTRochester to Charlotte9176.9%22.1 min2.2%
ROC–ATLRochester to Atlanta8966.3%39.2 min3.4%
ROC–DCARochester to Washington8984.3%11.2 min1.1%
ROC–EWRRochester to Newark8790.8%-11.0 min2.3%
ROC–LGARochester to New York8186.4%-0.9 min1.2%
ROC–MDWRochester to Chicago5669.6%18.4 min0.0%
ROC–BOSRochester to Boston3786.5%-1.5 min0.0%
ROC–MCORochester to Orlando3582.9%-0.3 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), August 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Aug 2023Minutes
Air carrier40.0%36.7%7,348
Late-arriving aircraft40.9%42.2%7,525
National Aviation System16.0%15.7%2,937
Extreme weather3.1%5.1%567
Security0.0%0.2%0
18,377 delay minutes on 201 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 ROC on time in August 2023?

78.4% of 1,104 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 76.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

August 2022 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 August 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for ROC · methodology · corrections.