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Airport month · October 2023

Savannah/Hilton Head International in October 2023

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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 1,522 domestic departures from Savannah/Hilton Head International (SAV). 86.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 88.3% reached their destination on time; 0.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so SAV departures were 2.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SAV that month were on time 85.7% of the time (1,524 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 50%, late-arriving aircraft 39% and national aviation system 9%.

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

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

MeasureOct 2023Year earlierSAV, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time86.3%—78.2%83.8%
Arrived on time88.3%—78.9%84.0%
Cancelled0.2%—2.1%0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)9.0 min—17.9 min11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day51—5219,966
Scheduled departures1,522—19,137598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DL Delta Air Lines23315%90.6%-3.9 min0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines22915%82.5%3.1 min0.0%
AA American Airlines18912%84.1%9.6 min0.5%
9E Endeavor Air18612%95.2%-16.2 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines18412%94.6%-6.5 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air1158%90.4%-3.9 min0.9%
YX Republic Airline926%89.1%-5.4 min0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways906%68.9%10.0 min1.1%
UA United Airlines745%91.9%-5.0 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines634%87.3%1.0 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air584%93.1%6.7 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines91%100.0%-11.8 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
SAV–CLTSavannah to Charlotte23592.8%-5.9 min0.4%
SAV–ATLSavannah to Atlanta21890.4%-3.9 min0.0%
SAV–JFKSavannah to New York12487.9%-12.8 min0.8%
SAV–EWRSavannah to Newark9392.5%-9.0 min0.0%
SAV–LGASavannah to New York9087.8%-5.8 min0.0%
SAV–DFWSavannah to Dallas/Fort Worth8683.7%9.6 min1.2%
SAV–PHLSavannah to Philadelphia8589.4%3.0 min0.0%
SAV–ORDSavannah to Chicago7386.3%0.7 min0.0%
SAV–BWISavannah to Baltimore7184.5%-0.6 min0.0%
SAV–DCASavannah to Washington6188.5%4.6 min0.0%
SAV–BNASavannah to Nashville5581.8%4.1 min0.0%
SAV–MIASavannah to Miami5488.9%1.2 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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Oct 2023Minutes
Air carrier50.1%41.3%5,422
Late-arriving aircraft39.2%40.5%4,250
National Aviation System8.5%14.4%924
Extreme weather2.1%3.7%228
Security0.0%0.2%5
10,829 delay minutes on 173 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 October 2023?

86.3% of 1,522 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 88.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 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 October 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.