Santa Fe Regional in March 2024

84.7%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 124 domestic departures from Santa Fe Regional (SAF). 84.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 75.0% reached their destination on time; 1.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so SAF departures were 6.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SAF that month were on time 83.9% of the time (124 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, extreme weather 38%, air carrier 29% and late-arriving aircraft 26%.

On time 75.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 23.4%
Cancelled 1.6%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from SAF 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	SAF, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	84.7%	—	78.3%	78.5%
Arrived on time	75.0%	—	76.6%	78.3%
Cancelled	1.6%	—	1.8%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	11.8 min	—	19.0 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	4	—	12	19,726
Scheduled departures	124	—	4,338	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	93	75%	77.4%	3.3 min	2.2%
MQ Envoy Air	31	25%	67.7%	13.0 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	72.0%	6.9 min	2.2%
SAF–PHX	Santa Fe to Phoenix	31	83.9%	2.4 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	28.8%	32.1%	508
Late-arriving aircraft	26.2%	42.1%	461
National Aviation System	7.1%	21.4%	125
Extreme weather	37.9%	4.2%	667
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

1,761 delay minutes on 29 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 March 2024?

84.7% of 124 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 75.0% 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 SAF · methodology · corrections.