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Airport month · March 2024

Savannah/Hilton Head International in March 2024

83.5%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 1,580 domestic departures from Savannah/Hilton Head International (SAV). 83.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.4% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so SAV departures were 5.0 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SAV that month were on time 81.1% of the time (1,579 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 54%, air carrier 30% and national aviation system 14%.

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

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

MeasureMar 2024Year earlierSAV, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time83.5%—78.2%78.5%
Arrived on time84.4%—78.9%78.3%
Cancelled0.3%—2.1%0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)12.3 min—17.9 min15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day53—5219,726
Scheduled departures1,580—19,137591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines24616%84.6%-0.7 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines24215%89.3%-3.9 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines22114%86.4%2.2 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air18111%85.6%2.8 min0.0%
AA American Airlines16911%71.0%25.9 min0.0%
UA United Airlines1459%89.7%-7.5 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air1167%80.2%9.0 min0.9%
YX Republic Airline1026%92.2%-11.9 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air865%89.5%-5.5 min0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways624%66.1%12.3 min4.8%
F9 Frontier Airlines50%80.0%9.2 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines50%100.0%-27.0 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
SAV–ATLSavannah to Atlanta24289.3%-3.9 min0.0%
SAV–CLTSavannah to Charlotte20979.9%8.7 min0.0%
SAV–JFKSavannah to New York12477.4%12.6 min0.8%
SAV–DCASavannah to Washington9383.9%7.4 min0.0%
SAV–DFWSavannah to Dallas/Fort Worth9367.7%30.9 min0.0%
SAV–EWRSavannah to Newark9194.5%-15.5 min0.0%
SAV–LGASavannah to New York8890.9%-6.6 min0.0%
SAV–ORDSavannah to Chicago8887.5%-7.0 min0.0%
SAV–MIASavannah to Miami8584.7%5.4 min1.2%
SAV–BWISavannah to Baltimore8390.4%-4.3 min0.0%
SAV–BNASavannah to Nashville6180.3%1.4 min0.0%
SAV–MDWSavannah to Chicago4693.5%-2.8 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Mar 2024Minutes
Air carrier29.6%32.1%5,038
Late-arriving aircraft54.4%42.1%9,273
National Aviation System14.3%21.4%2,442
Extreme weather1.7%4.2%296
Security0.0%0.2%0
17,049 delay minutes on 239 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 March 2024?

83.5% of 1,580 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.4% 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 SAV · methodology · corrections.