On-Time Report

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Airport month · August 2025

Savannah/Hilton Head International in August 2025

79.2%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 August 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,638 domestic departures from Savannah/Hilton Head International (SAV). 79.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.3% reached their destination on time; 1.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.8% of flights departed on time and 76.3% arrived on time, so SAV departures were 2.4 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in August 2024, the airport had 1,617 departures with 75.9% leaving on time: a change of +3.3 points, with flights up 1%.

Flights arriving at SAV that month were on time 77.9% of the time (1,639 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 42%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 24%.

Every scheduled departure from SAV in August 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

August 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureAug 2025Aug 2024SAV, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Aug 2025
Departed on time79.2%75.9%78.2%76.8%
Arrived on time79.3%76.2%78.9%76.3%
Cancelled1.0%4.8%2.1%1.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)17.7 min18.3 min17.9 min17.6 min
Scheduled departures a day55545220,079
Scheduled departures1,6381,61719,137602,378

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DL Delta Air Lines30318%90.1%-8.2 min1.3%
OH PSA Airlines27517%79.6%-1.5 min2.5%
WN Southwest Airlines25015%81.2%7.8 min0.4%
AA American Airlines20513%73.7%23.1 min0.5%
UA United Airlines1489%56.8%34.9 min0.7%
B6 JetBlue Airways1087%75.9%11.7 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline1016%88.1%-7.3 min2.0%
G4 Allegiant Air986%85.7%0.7 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines614%75.4%18.9 min1.6%
MQ Envoy Air604%78.3%12.0 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines181%66.7%3.0 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines111%81.8%10.0 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
SAV–ATLSavannah to Atlanta23491.5%-8.4 min1.3%
SAV–CLTSavannah to Charlotte19082.6%-2.5 min0.5%
SAV–ORDSavannah to Chicago12265.6%31.3 min0.8%
SAV–DFWSavannah to Dallas/Fort Worth10778.5%13.6 min0.9%
SAV–BOSSavannah to Boston10376.7%2.6 min1.0%
SAV–PHLSavannah to Philadelphia10276.5%10.6 min1.0%
SAV–EWRSavannah to Newark9368.8%22.7 min2.2%
SAV–BWISavannah to Baltimore9280.4%11.2 min0.0%
SAV–DCASavannah to Washington8767.8%10.6 min5.7%
SAV–BNASavannah to Nashville6282.3%12.3 min0.0%
SAV–DTWSavannah to Detroit6272.6%17.6 min1.6%
SAV–JFKSavannah to New York5481.5%15.1 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), August 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Aug 2025Minutes
Air carrier28.1%33.1%7,654
Late-arriving aircraft41.6%40.5%11,307
National Aviation System23.7%19.2%6,459
Extreme weather6.5%7.0%1,768
Security0.0%0.1%11
27,199 delay minutes on 315 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 August 2025?

79.2% of 1,638 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.8% and 76.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In August 2024, 75.9% of 1,617 departures left on time and 4.8% were cancelled, against 79.2% and 1.0% in August 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for August 2025; 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.