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Airport month · September 2023

Savannah/Hilton Head International in September 2023

78.6%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 September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 1,404 domestic departures from Savannah/Hilton Head International (SAV). 78.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.9% reached their destination on time; 1.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so SAV departures were 1.9 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SAV that month were on time 78.8% of the time (1,404 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 37%, late-arriving aircraft 36% and national aviation system 20%.

Every scheduled departure from SAV in September 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureSep 2023Year earlierSAV, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time78.6%—78.2%80.5%
Arrived on time80.9%—78.9%80.1%
Cancelled1.8%—2.1%1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)16.7 min—17.9 min14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day47—5218,978
Scheduled departures1,404—19,137569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DL Delta Air Lines22116%88.7%-1.3 min0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines22116%78.7%7.8 min0.9%
OH PSA Airlines20515%89.3%-0.1 min0.5%
9E Endeavor Air18013%81.7%-5.6 min6.7%
MQ Envoy Air1138%83.2%2.0 min0.0%
UA United Airlines987%81.6%21.5 min2.0%
AA American Airlines957%74.7%11.5 min1.1%
B6 JetBlue Airways947%48.9%38.9 min3.2%
YX Republic Airline896%89.9%-11.2 min4.5%
G4 Allegiant Air514%74.5%28.6 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines292%75.9%8.1 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines81%62.5%24.0 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
SAV–CLTSavannah to Charlotte21386.4%2.2 min0.0%
SAV–ATLSavannah to Atlanta20489.2%-1.0 min0.0%
SAV–JFKSavannah to New York12476.6%-3.8 min7.3%
SAV–LGASavannah to New York9067.8%20.5 min4.4%
SAV–EWRSavannah to Newark8883.0%19.0 min6.8%
SAV–ORDSavannah to Chicago8688.4%-5.0 min0.0%
SAV–DFWSavannah to Dallas/Fort Worth7981.0%1.6 min0.0%
SAV–BWISavannah to Baltimore6783.6%7.8 min3.0%
SAV–DCASavannah to Washington6186.9%3.3 min1.6%
SAV–BNASavannah to Nashville5379.2%2.4 min0.0%
SAV–BOSSavannah to Boston3948.7%37.9 min5.1%
SAV–MDWSavannah to Chicago3873.7%14.9 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), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Sep 2023Minutes
Air carrier36.5%36.4%7,548
Late-arriving aircraft35.7%38.3%7,380
National Aviation System20.1%19.9%4,150
Extreme weather7.8%5.1%1,607
Security0.0%0.2%5
20,690 delay minutes on 242 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 SAV on time in September 2023?

78.6% of 1,404 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

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