Santa Fe Regional in January 2024

86.3%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 124 domestic departures from Santa Fe Regional (SAF). 86.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 74.2% reached their destination on time; 1.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so SAF departures were 12.3 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SAF that month were on time 82.3% of the time (124 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 41%, extreme weather 35% and national aviation system 21%.

On time 74.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 24.2%
Cancelled 1.6%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from SAF 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	SAF, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	86.3%	—	78.3%	74.0%
Arrived on time	74.2%	—	76.6%	72.9%
Cancelled	1.6%	—	1.8%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.2 min	—	19.0 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	4	—	12	18,242
Scheduled departures	124	—	4,338	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	117	94%	74.4%	8.5 min	1.7%
MQ Envoy Air	7	6%	71.4%	11.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SAF–DFW	Santa Fe to Dallas/Fort Worth	93	68.8%	12.5 min	2.2%
SAF–PHX	Santa Fe to Phoenix	31	90.3%	-2.7 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	40.7%	32.6%	688
Late-arriving aircraft	3.3%	39.0%	56
National Aviation System	20.8%	17.9%	352
Extreme weather	35.2%	10.3%	595
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

1,691 delay minutes on 30 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 SAF on time in January 2024?

86.3% of 124 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 74.2% 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 SAF · methodology · corrections.