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Airport month · January 2024

Savannah/Hilton Head International in January 2024

80.0%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 1,333 domestic departures from Savannah/Hilton Head International (SAV). 80.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.6% reached their destination on time; 1.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so SAV departures were 6.0 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SAV that month were on time 73.8% of the time (1,336 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 48%, air carrier 30% and national aviation system 12%.

Every scheduled departure from SAV in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureJan 2024Year earlierSAV, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time80.0%—78.2%74.0%
Arrived on time80.6%—78.9%72.9%
Cancelled1.8%—2.1%3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)20.0 min—17.9 min18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day44—5218,242
Scheduled departures1,333—19,137547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OH PSA Airlines20515%80.5%8.5 min2.9%
DL Delta Air Lines19615%90.3%-3.5 min0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines19114%76.4%5.9 min0.5%
9E Endeavor Air17113%81.3%4.9 min4.7%
MQ Envoy Air13210%77.3%6.1 min1.5%
AA American Airlines1229%69.7%51.9 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline1018%89.1%-8.6 min2.0%
UA United Airlines856%87.1%-7.4 min2.4%
B6 JetBlue Airways635%73.0%25.6 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines423%73.8%14.1 min7.1%
G4 Allegiant Air252%76.0%5.4 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
SAV–ATLSavannah to Atlanta19690.3%-3.5 min0.0%
SAV–CLTSavannah to Charlotte19576.9%17.6 min1.5%
SAV–JFKSavannah to New York11878.0%12.3 min2.5%
SAV–MIASavannah to Miami8687.2%0.9 min1.2%
SAV–EWRSavannah to Newark8486.9%-9.8 min1.2%
SAV–LGASavannah to New York8481.0%-0.4 min6.0%
SAV–ORDSavannah to Chicago8379.5%1.9 min7.2%
SAV–DFWSavannah to Dallas/Fort Worth7864.1%47.1 min0.0%
SAV–BWISavannah to Baltimore6275.8%8.3 min0.0%
SAV–DCASavannah to Washington6272.6%0.5 min6.5%
SAV–BNASavannah to Nashville5881.0%3.9 min1.7%
SAV–BOSSavannah to Boston4077.5%33.7 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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2024Minutes
Air carrier29.9%32.6%7,157
Late-arriving aircraft48.2%39.0%11,546
National Aviation System11.6%17.9%2,765
Extreme weather10.3%10.3%2,459
Security0.0%0.2%8
23,935 delay minutes on 231 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 January 2024?

80.0% of 1,333 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.6% 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 SAV · methodology · corrections.