On-Time Report

Airports › Fort Myers (RSW) › May 2024

Airport month · May 2024

Southwest Florida International in May 2024

75.3%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 2,613 domestic departures from Southwest Florida International (RSW). 75.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 72.1% reached their destination on time; 1.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so RSW departures were 1.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at RSW that month were on time 72.6% of the time (2,606 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 55%, national aviation system 26% and air carrier 14%.

Every scheduled departure from RSW in May 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureMay 2024Year earlierRSW, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time75.3%—77.0%73.4%
Arrived on time72.1%—76.5%72.3%
Cancelled1.0%—1.9%1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)19.2 min—18.3 min20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day87—9520,325
Scheduled departures2,613—34,831609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DL Delta Air Lines60023%78.0%7.1 min0.2%
WN Southwest Airlines57322%72.6%13.9 min0.2%
AA American Airlines47718%63.3%27.1 min2.3%
UA United Airlines42616%74.6%8.3 min1.4%
B6 JetBlue Airways2409%69.6%13.2 min0.4%
NK Spirit Airlines1777%78.0%14.6 min0.6%
F9 Frontier Airlines1074%60.7%22.4 min3.7%
AS Alaska Airlines80%50.0%17.5 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air50%100.0%-29.6 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
RSW–ATLFort Myers to Atlanta28380.9%6.4 min0.4%
RSW–ORDFort Myers to Chicago21865.1%21.2 min0.5%
RSW–CLTFort Myers to Charlotte19076.3%16.9 min0.5%
RSW–EWRFort Myers to Newark18275.3%5.5 min0.0%
RSW–DTWFort Myers to Detroit16685.5%6.3 min0.0%
RSW–BOSFort Myers to Boston15865.8%16.3 min0.6%
RSW–BWIFort Myers to Baltimore11777.8%7.6 min0.9%
RSW–DFWFort Myers to Dallas/Fort Worth11245.5%43.5 min8.9%
RSW–MSPFort Myers to Minneapolis9982.8%2.3 min0.0%
RSW–JFKFort Myers to New York9369.9%15.7 min1.1%
RSW–MDWFort Myers to Chicago8766.7%22.4 min0.0%
RSW–PHLFort Myers to Philadelphia8461.9%25.4 min1.2%

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), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, May 2024Minutes
Air carrier14.2%29.8%7,293
Late-arriving aircraft54.7%43.0%28,130
National Aviation System26.3%20.1%13,527
Extreme weather4.8%7.0%2,452
Security0.1%0.1%41
51,443 delay minutes on 690 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 RSW on time in May 2024?

75.3% of 2,613 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 72.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for RSW · methodology · corrections.